Peripatetic Team Manager

Peripatetic Team ManagerNorthampton£49,582 to £54,430 Plus £2,200 Welcome BonusAre you a strong, resilient, Social Work Team Manager with a breadth of experience, looking for a new, unique and exciting opportunity to work in a different way?If so, thiscould be the career opportunity for you....We are looking for a talented Social Work Team Manager to grow and lead a new Peripatetic team within the Northamptonshire Children's Trust. This team will be working across all social work teams and services, providingcritical cover and helping to ease the pressure, wherever they are needed.This will be a fantastic chance to enrich your work experience and career with real diversity. You will get to grow and lead a new and innovative team, who will be providing criticalsupport to a variety of areas of the Trust, supporting those different teams, meeting new people, taking on a variety of case-work and working with a broad range of service users.About the roleThis will be a busy and interesting role, providing a quality,peripatetic service to the full spectrum of practice areas within Northamptonshire Children's Trust. You will be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads, managing a talented team of Senior Social Workers, who will be working across multiple serviceareas and effectively ensuring that the care of the child remains paramount. You will be responsible for recruiting and growing this Peripatetic Service, alongside your Management Team, ensuring their continuous development through quality supervision. Youwill have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved.About youYou will be a highly competent and skilled people manager, incredibly organised and able to multi-task. With strong emotional intelligence, patienceand resilience, you will have the ability to manage a highly capable Senior Social Worker team and ensure development and performance issues are addressed though support and coaching. You will have experience and knowledge across a range of social work teamsand services and demonstrably transferrable skills.You will have had previous budgetary control experience, ICT skills and the ability to represent the service at a more senior level if required.You will of course be a qualified Social Worker, with currentSocial Work England registration, and ideally with a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification, or equivalent relevant experience. About usThe Children's Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children's Services to the newly established North and WestNorthants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils. This provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to servicedelivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.What We Offer
- Highly competitive salaries
- £2,200 Welcome bonus
- Retention bonus
- Social WorkEngland registration costs
- Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share
- The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
- Monthly high quality supervision
- Up to 27 day's annual leave plus bank holidays (withservice rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)
- Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
- Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme
- Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%- Employee discount schemes
- Up to £8,000 relocationallowance
- Signs of Safety training
- An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities
- Heavily subsidised city centre parking