Safeguarding Team Manager

4 weeks ago


Bolton, United Kingdom Bolton Council Full time

Grade: K scp 39 £48,710 to scp 43 £52,805
Contract: Permanent
Essential Qualification: Social Work qualified and SWE registered
Role Requirement: Full driving licence and access to a vehicle
Hours: 37 per week

Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible

The Role
We are currently looking to recruit Team Managers to our Safeguarding service.

The post will see you manage a team of approximately 6 Social Workers holding statutory work including working with children subject to Child Protection planning, Child in Need cases, PLO and Court proceedings.

We aim to work towards a standard of excellence, working with the statutory framework and Bolton’s policies and procedures, effectively managing performance and producing high quality work which makes a difference to our children of Bolton.

We also focus on working effectively with our partner agencies to ensure that every child receives the support they require at the right time to allow them to achieve their best possible outcomes.

If this sounds like an opportunity you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you. For an informal chat, please contact Helen Delamare Senior Head of Service
Helen.Delamare@bolton.gov.uk


This is a rolling advert, applications will be reviewed fortnightly and shortlisted applicants invited to interview. You will therefore receive a prompt response from us. We look forward to receiving your application.

About You
You must be a qualified Social Worker and registered with Social Work England who has proven, relevant post qualification experience within a child care setting.

You will have a positive outlook, be ambitious, creative but most of all caring.

You will need to be resilient solution focused, with an ethos of effective team working, partnership working and leadership.

You will be able to show transferrable skills that enable you to be an effective Team Manager in the challenging but rewarding area of Children’s Safeguarding.

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 are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. 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 upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.

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. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

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 commitment, 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, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk






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