Partnership Support Quality Assurance and Workforce Development Team Manager

Grade: K £50,269- £54,495, Essential Car User allowance up to £963pa & 7% enhancementContract: Permanent, 37 hours per weekEssential Qualifications: Degree Level Qualification in relevant subject (e.g. Children and Families, Social Work, Childhood/Early Years).Essential Requirement: Full Driving Licence, DBS Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible The Role This is an exciting opportunity to become a Team Manager within our newly established Family Help Service. This role is an essential part of ensuring both the service and partnership are supported, to provide support to children and families at the earliest opportunity. The role will lead on working with partners to support early help work across the partnership and in line with this provide workforce development opportunities across Family Help and the wider partnership. As part of our ongoing commitment to practice improvement, the role will also support quality assurance activity to support the Family Help service and wider Early Help system. The role will require close working with senior managers to improve the quality of Family Help services delivered to Children and Families and lead on developing strong and robust approaches to partnership support across the Early Help system. This will include leading the development and delivery of partnership support and workforce development opportunities. We are open to flexible working and have a range of options; we and are happy to discuss this further. For an informal discussion, please contact Nicola Murphy, Strategic Lead- Prevention email nicola.murphy@bolton.gov.uk About You You will be a passionate and experienced manager with an understanding and experience of Early Help work with Children and Families, and a good understanding of Family Help developments. You will have experience of working in partnership, building relationships across the partnership and supporting partners in the context of Early Help work. You will have experience of developing and delivery workforce training to improve practice. You will have experience of undertaking quality assurance activity and have the proven ability to analyse data and information to support ongoing improvements across Family Help. You will have experience of managing high performing teams, utilising a restorative approach to leadership and leading by example. You will be an approachable and confident leader, who embraces creativity and approaches change with a ‘can do’ attitude to overcome challenges. If you think you could be what we're looking for, apply now with your CV and covering letter. Within your covering letter with specific reference to the job description and person specification please demonstrate: Your extensive operational experience of working with children, young people and families, in relation to delivering targeted interventions with managerial or supervisory experience within a child and family setting. Your experience of partnership working to improve outcomes for children and families. Your ability to support the training and development of the Early Help workforce to enhance practice through the Quality Assurance framework and develop a shared understanding of best practice. About Us This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough. Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents. As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services. Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too. Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and explain how you meet the points on the person specification. Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post. This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification. This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the comitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information. For more information about working for Bolton Council, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk #J-18808-Ljbffr