Current jobs related to Children's Assessment and Recruitment Team Manager, Fostering - Devon - Devon County Council
-
Team Manager
3 months ago
Devon, United Kingdom Ackerman Pierce Ltd Full timeWe are looking to recruit a Team Manager - Children and Families within the Social Care industry in Devon. The Team Manager - Child Protection team vacancy within Devon will be for an initial 3-6 months with potential for extension subject to internal circumstance and your performance The duties for the team manager job can include up to the...
-
Residential Support Worker
2 weeks ago
Devon, United Kingdom Additional Resources Full timeResidential Support Worker (Children’s Home) Salary: Very Competitive (DOE) Location: Devon Full Time position + Excellent Benefits An exciting opportunity has arisen for Residential Support Worker withLevel 3 Diploma and prior experience in children's residential care to join a newly opened children’s home passionate in providing...
-
Social Worker, Fostering,
1 month ago
Devon, Devon, United Kingdom Pertemps Social Care Full timeSocial Worker, £44ph, Fostering, DevonPertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Supervising Social Workers to join the Fostering team in Mid and North Devon. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring high quality and timely assessments to provide high quality carers for the most vulnerable children in Devon. Supervising Social worker...
-
Qualified Social Worker
7 days ago
Devon, United Kingdom Ackerman Pierce Ltd Full timeWe are looking to recruit an Assessment & Intervention Social Worker within the Social Care Industry. Our client has a well-structured and organised team that are looking to grow their staffing levels. The role offers flexible working hours and has a supportive team culture with regular supervision on cases. Devon is embedding a systemic approach and is...
-
Advanced Social Worker for Children Assessment
2 weeks ago
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Randstad Care Full timeAdvanced Social Worker for the Children Assessment & Intervention Team Why Randstad? As the world's largest staffing agency, we believe that the right job can change your life for the better. We're excited to connect you with exceptional opportunities in social care, where your passion for helping children can truly shine. Are you ready to...
-
Advanced Social Worker for Children Assessment
2 weeks ago
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Randstad Care Full timeAdvanced Social Worker for the Children Assessment & Intervention Team Why Randstad? As the world's largest staffing agency, we believe that the right job can change your life for the better. We're excited to connect you with exceptional opportunities in social care, where your passion for helping children can truly shine. Are you ready to...
-
Social Worker,
6 days ago
Devon, Devon, United Kingdom Pertemps Social Care Full timeSocial Worker, £40ph, Kinship Assessment Service, DevonPertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Social Workers to join as an Assessing Social Worker within the Kinship Assessment Service.The service is responsible for the assessment of connected carers, both as foster carers and special guardians. This is a challenging and rewarding role which...
-
Social Worker, £40ph, Kinship Assessment Service
3 weeks ago
Devon, United Kingdom Pertemps Professional Recruitment Full timeSocial Worker, £40ph, Kinship Assessment Service, Devon Pertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Social Workers to join as an Assessing Social Worker within the Kinship Assessment Service. The service is responsible for the assessment of connected carers, both as foster carers and special guardians. This is a challenging and rewarding role...
-
Devon, United Kingdom Pertemps Professional Recruitment Full timeSocial Worker, £40ph, Kinship Assessment Service, DevonPertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Social Workers to join as an Assessing Social Worker within the Kinship Assessment Service.The service is responsible for the assessment of connected carers, both as foster carers and special guardians. This is a challenging and rewarding role which...
-
Team Manager, £48ph, Assessment, Exeter
1 month ago
Devon, United Kingdom Pertemps Professional Recruitment Full timeTeam Manager, £48ph, Assessment, Exeter Pertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Team Managers to support and guide the practice of social workers within the Duty and Assessment Team, ensuring children and young people are receiving the right interventions at the right time, to improve their outcomes. Team Managers make a vital contribution...
-
Experienced Social Worker
2 weeks ago
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeMake an impact where it matters the most. – Children's Social Work in Devon. About the Service Devon County Council have an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Social Worker to join the Child and parent Assessment team (CPAT) within Children's Social Care. The key purpose of the role is to improve the outcomes for our most vulnerable...
-
Assistant Team Manager
13 hours ago
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeAbout the Role:The Devon County Council is seeking an experienced and passionate Social Worker to join our Fostering Intensive Support Team as an Assistant Team Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dedicated team of professionals who are committed to providing high-quality services to foster carers and young people.Key...
-
Team Manager,
4 weeks ago
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom Pertemps Social Care Full timeTeam Manager, £48ph, Assessment, ExeterPertemps are recruiting for qualified and experienced Team Managers to support and guide the practice of social workers within the Duty and Assessment Team, ensuring children and young people are receiving the right interventions at the right time, to improve their outcomes. Team Managers make a vital contribution to...
-
Experienced Social Worker
14 hours ago
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeAbout the ServiceDevon County Council is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Experienced Social Worker to join the Child and Parent Assessment Team (CPAT) within Children's Social Care.Key ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will be responsible for:Providing specialist assessments, including the parent assess model, in both Child and Parent fostering...
-
Experienced Social Worker
9 hours ago
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeAbout the ServiceDevon County Council is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Experienced Social Worker to join the Child and Parent Assessment Team (CPAT) within Children's Social Care.Key ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will be responsible for:Providing specialist assessments, including the parent assess model, in both Child and Parent fostering...
-
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeAbout the RoleThe Fostering Supervision and Support Service is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Supervising Social Worker to join our team. As a key member of our service, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young people in foster care.Key ResponsibilitiesProvide expert supervision and support to foster...
-
Team Manager
3 months ago
Devon, United Kingdom Ackerman Pierce Ltd Full timeWe are looking to recruit a Team Manager for the Childrens Permanence & Transitions Team within the Social Care Industry. Our client has a well-structured and organised team that are looking to grow their staffing levels. The role offers flexible working hours and has a supportive team culture with regular supervision on cases. Devon is embedding a systemic...
-
Supervising Social Worker
1 day ago
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeAbout the RoleThe Fostering Supervision and Support Service is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Supervising Social Worker to join our team. As a key member of our service, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young people in foster care.Key ResponsibilitiesProvide expert supervision and support to foster...
-
Qualified Social Worker
7 days ago
Devon, United Kingdom Ackerman Pierce Ltd Full timeWe are looking to recruit an Assessment & Intervention Social Worker within the Social Care Industry. Our client has a well-structured and organised team that are looking to grow their staffing levels. The role offers flexible working hours and has a supportive team culture with regular supervision on cases. Devon is embedding a systemic approach and is...
-
Children's Social Care Team Leader
3 weeks ago
Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full timeDevon County Council is seeking a skilled Social Work Team Manager to oversee the Exeter Assessment and Intervention unit within the realm of Children's Social Care.Primary Duties:Facilitate positive transformations and enhance outcomes for at-risk youth and families in Devon.Guide team growth to secure optimal results for children, young individuals, and...
Children's Assessment and Recruitment Team Manager, Fostering
2 months ago
Make an impact where it matters the most. – Children's Social Work in Devon.
About us
Fostering Devon provides in-house fostering families that offer a stable and consistent experience of family life to children and young people. The service aims to train and develop foster carers to deliver therapeutic parenting to heal traumatised children and young people. The fostering service supports and contributes to this mission by providing an effective, efficiently managed, high-quality foster care service within available resources. It meets the needs of children identified through assessment planning and review stages and aims to ensure the best possible outcomes for children in foster care.
Our Fostering Service is developing and on an improvement journey. With a highly successful recruitment team, skilled therapeutic support to foster carers and well-resourced and experienced social workers, our foster carers, children and young people are supported to reach their potential.
About the role
As the Team Manager for the Assessment and Recruitment Team, you will have responsibility for the assessment and approval of high-quality foster carers to join the Fostering Devon service. You will work closely with the South West Hub – the regionalised front door service to recruit foster families across Devon and the South West. You will supervise staff who are supporting their newly approved foster cares for the first year of their fostering journey.
Your practice will be supported as you join a strong management group dedicated to promoting positive change. With your team you will ensure that high quality assessments are delivered to exacting targets. As someone who knows what good foster care looks like, with your considerable knowledge and experience, you will oversee the work undertaken by the team and seek every opportunity to build on the success of the service and recruit more carers. You’ll allocate, Quality Assure and monitor work, as well as supervise and monitor the progress and professional development of each member of your team.
You will be responsible for ensuring high quality and timely assessments to provide high quality carers for our most vulnerable children in Devon. You will ensure our foster carers are assessed as being able to provide the care that looked after children need to enable them to be kept safe, maximises their potential, achieves permanence and leads to a successful transition to adulthood. You will work with your Team Manager colleagues in the county to ensure that every Devon child, no matter where they live, receives quality care in a family setting.
Please click Apply Now to see the Job Description.
About you
Like us, you’ll be passionate about improving children’s life chances and outcomes. As an experienced qualified social worker with an energy and enthusiasm for managing people and services, you will be able to demonstrate success in the management of complex situations. Having gained some supervisory or management experience, you will be used to providing inspirational leadership and effective performance management.
You already know how to enable staff to achieve their potential.
You will be committed to reflective and restorative practice and know how to energise, motivate, and challenge practitioners. You will have gained some experience of performance and budget management and will understand how to balance the availability of resources with the best possible outcomes for children and their families. A clear communicator and attentive listener, you are quick to understand, empathise and respond appropriately to the needs of your team.
We are looking for people who are outward looking, strong in partnership working, think creatively to find effective solutions to situations as they happen and are ready to try new things.
Personal and professional rewards
In return, we will recognise and reward the vital contribution you make and just as importantly, we will support you to grow and develop with us.
Through individual and team supervision to support reflective practice, and effective locally based administrative support, we aim to enable you to be the best leader, manager, mentor and role model you can be.
Our leadership and management development pathway offers a structured approach to your development and supports you to achieve the expected outcomes within the knowledge and skills framework.
We are also committed to your professional development and, as part of this, expect you to complete post-qualification training as well as other forms of continuous professional development.
What you’ll get in return
In return for the vital contribution that you make, we have some fantastic employee benefits available, including:
If you are looking to move to Devon, subject to qualifying conditions, we offer a generous relocation allowance. There has never been a better time to make the move
