Team Manager Family Service

4 weeks ago

Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom Walsall Council Full time
Family Service Team Manager (Fixed-Term Contract for 12-Months)

Lead a new time in a new direction

Walsall is implementing the Families First Programme, based on the National Children's Social Care Review and Stable Homes Built on Love. To do this we are creating a combined, multi-agency locality Family Help Service, building on the strengths of Family Safeguarding model

About the job

You and your team will help us transform our service delivering Family Group Conference and Family Network Meetings as an offer to all families. Our vision is to embed family rights and decision making at the heart of everything we do.

This role sees you work flexibility, your focus will be meeting the needs of families and supporting them to come together, which sometimes means this will be outside of 9-5.

About you:

We are looking for an experienced team manager who can lead a new team as we change the way we work with families.

We would look for you to hold a degree or foundation level qualification within a relevant professional with relevant experience and training in working with children, young people and families.

Our Offer:

Wellbeing is at the heart of our work. We offer specialised clinical supervision, a 9-day fortnight to support work/life balance, flexible working and specialist employee assistance and therapeutic support when it is needed. We know we need to make social work a career people want to stay in.

Family service practitioners will also receive 5% allowance to ensure flexibility to work with families when it works for them

Salary Scale £46,464 - £51, % Retention Payments after 2 years, increasing at 4 and 6 years)

Closing date: 21st August - Interviews w/c 26th August

Would you like to talk to a team manager about the realities of working in Walsall?

If so, please contact Hannah Thompson Principal Social Worker how will connect you with one of our practitioners

Walsall is an innovative and creative local authority, but above all our friendly supportive culture ensures practitioners have the right support to grow and develop.

You are part of a challenging profession, that's why we ensure you are never alone but instead surrounded by approachable practitioners and managers. Allowing you to spend time on what counts, direct work with children young people and families.

Career development pathways, flexible working and our 9-day fortnight will make you want Walsall to be in your future

Walsall is where innovation really happens. Our Families First offering is leading the way in the transformation of regional and national approaches too, and we're one of only ten local authorities working this way. Our multi-agency structure is already established and we're going to continue to innovate to ensure better outcomes for children and young people

Walsall is a truly exciting place to be where you can make a difference to every family. If you share our vision, shouldn't you be here too?

View Job Description & Employee Specification

Families First:

We're committed to creating a culture of supporting families to overcome challenges and to stay together and thrive. Or where that isn't possible, for family networks to offer safe, loving and stable homes and keep children out of local authority care

Family Service: Family networks will be placed at the heart of our practice, as we recognise the importance of engaging the wider systems around a family as early as we can so that children and young people remain living at home or with their families.

Family Help: Our family help service will align our family safeguarding model and targeted early help teams in supporting children, young people and families as soon as possible.

Child Protection: We've created a new role of Lead Child Protection Practitioner, and you simply won't find that anywhere else. We're continuing to develop our multi-agency child protection team. It's all about developing systems and practices with partners including the police, health, and probation services to form an expert network of child protection leads and specialists.

Trailblazers

We are currently part of the regional Designated Family Judge Trailblazer pilot aimed at finding solutions to delay across the family justice system.

Innovation is at the heart of our practice within Walsall ensuing children, young people and families are at the centre of our work.

Looking after you

We're committed to growing and developing our own workforce. So, you'll be supported throughout their career to become skilled and confident through our learning and development offer.

We also want you to achieve and maintain a healthy work life balance and there's a range of employee benefits to suit everyone's lifestyles.
  • Flexible working - there are different options depending on your role and on customer and service needs, and it includes 9-day fortnights, flexible and hybrid working
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Retention Payments post 2 years in service
  • A commitment across our service to Equality Diversity and Inclusion
  • Established learning and development frameworks
    Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

    Note: Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to anytime they were overseas.

    This post is covered by the Government's Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The postholder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

    Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form. Please do not add a CV as we do not accept them. See our Information for Applicants leaflet for further information.

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