Team Manager

1 week ago

AshtonunderLyne, United Kingdom Tameside Council Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade J. Scale 40 - £48,474 to Scale 43 - £51,515 with a professional bar at Scale 41 - £49,498**

Hours: 36 hours per week

Base Location: Ashton Old Library, Old Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 7SG

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The role

In Tameside we want to achieve the best outcomes for our looked after children and care leavers. In order to achieve this we are looking for an enthusiastic and positive Team Manager to join our fostering service. A number of exciting changes and developments are taking place within our fostering service as we are committed to expanding the number of internal foster carers in line with the rise in the number of children who need to be cared for by the local authority.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing and supporting three Senior Practitioners, whilst supporting the necessary changes within the service in order to offer an excellent support package to our existing carers and to encourage new carers to work for Tameside. Our service is also absolutely committed to the 7 corporate parenting principles and the successful candidate will continue to ensure these principles are embedded across our service delivery and that the voice of the child and young person is at the centre of all our planning processes.

You will need to ensure that the team are working towards our vision to providing an enhanced level of support and training to our carers and are able to work flexibly and creatively in order to achieve this. You will need to be committed to providing the best possible outcomes for children and to ensure that our foster carers offer an excellent standard of care.

About you

If you are an enthusiastic, qualified Social Worker, have substantial previous work experience of working within children's social care, have management or supervisory experience and have good knowledge of fostering regulations then we would encourage you to apply.

Why work for us?

You will receive regular supervision and work in a supportive culture where we are ambitious about delivering effective social work practice and supporting you to be the very best you can be.

In Tameside, we like to look after our employees and offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including:

  • Minimum of 28 days leave each year, with the option to buy additional leave
  • 36 hours working week
  • Health and wellbeing support
  • Salary sacrifice schemes
  • Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

For further details about this role or informal discussion, please contact Meenakshi Kumar on meenakshi.kumar@tameside.gov.uk or Becky Pearson on becky.pearson@tameside.gov.uk

This post requires an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

Reference No: DPT290

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