AddressJob Posted: 4 January 2024
- Contract Term: Permanent
- Location: Newport, Isle of Wight
- Contract Type: Full time
- Salary: Grade 11, £41,548.00 to £44,356.00 per annum
- Industries:Management & ExecutivePublic SectorSocial Work
CAST Assistant Team Manager (Ref: 2024_693)
County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UD
Grade 11, £41,548.00 to £44,356.00 per annum
Contact: For further information or an informal discussion, please contact our Service Manager for Operations Lauren Wicks on [email protected] or by calling 01983 821000.
Vacancy Reference: 2024_693
Closing Date: 22/01/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Market Supplement: Up to £6,383.00
Due to our ongoing commitment to support the career and professional development of our social workers, we have a new Assistant Team Manager role now available to recruit to permanently.
Our Council has invested further in children’s social care. We have recruited additional permanent social workers in each of our four CASTs (Child Assessment and Safeguarding Teams, which have combined our referral and assessment and child in need teams). We have recruited a senior social worker in each CAST, as well as two Family Practitioners per CAST, bringing in even more capacity. Our Resilience Around the Families Team is a dedicated resource with adult mental health professional, adult substance misuse professionals, child mental health specialists, and a team of trained volunteers. Our Family Hub offer is nationally recognised as good practice, providing access to a range of targeted early intervention and early help support services including parenting and domestic abuse interventions.
A relocation grant of up to £8k is available if you are moving to the Isle of Wight. You will have 32 days annual leave a year to enjoy all what the Isle of Wight has to offer. In a recent poll with social workers across the Southeast, work life balance was their top priority when deciding on a job. We will invest in you and your career by providing you with five extra days for you to take to focus on your professional development with our support. We operate a nine-day fortnight which means you get an additional two days a month as time off in lieu.
We have a positive, supportive culture and working environment. Even our agency workers do not want to leave and if they do, they ask to come back. We work to a strengths-based, multi-disciplinary approach focussed on building resilience in individuals, families, and communities, whilst managing risk and safeguarding children.
Ofsted have rated us as an overall GOOD children's social care following our last inspection published in December 2023.
As the Assistant Team Manager, you will support your Team Manager and team members to achieve the best for children. Our Assistant Team Manager roles are the next step in our career pathway for social workers with an interest in progressing into senior management roles
You will be contacted for an interview if you are successful with your application.
For further information or an informal discussion, please contact our Service Manager for Operations Lauren Wicks on [email protected] or by calling 01983 821000.
When you join #TeamIWC you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:
- Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
- Local Government pension scheme
- Discounted Solent ferry travel
- Island bus network discount
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff parking permit scheme
- Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
- National and local discounts & benefits schemes
For some vacancies (subject to criteria)
- A relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available if you are specifically relocating to the Isle of Wight to take up a new role with us
- If you choose to commute to the Isle of Wight daily, you may be eligible to have some travel costs reimbursed
Find out more about working for the Isle of Wight Council and living on the Island here.
The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by the Unacceptable Behaviour Policy, Employee Code of Conduct and Behaviours Framework. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.
The Isle of Wight Council’s Terms & Conditions of employment are available upon request. Please contact our recruitment team via [email protected] if you would like to receive a copy.
The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, who is proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.
This council and its schools recruit according to the council’s Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
As we leave the 10- year strategic partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and Hampshire County Council it is worth noting that the employer will be the Isle of Wight Council and employment is on Isle of Wight terms and conditions. Hampshire County Council has delivered, on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council, all of its children’s services functions and will continue to do so until the partnership ends in 2023.
This council and its schools recruit according to the council’s Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
If you have difficulty completing your online application or if you need further information about how to apply, telephone 01983 823134 or email [email protected]. Please note only applications completed and submitted online by the closing date will be accepted.
We often receive a high volume of applicants for our vacancies. If you do not hear from the recruiting manager within three weeks of the closing date, we regret that your application will not have been successful on this occasion. If unsuccessful, we actively encourage you to revisit our job pages and apply to alternate posts that may be suitable.
Closing Date: 22 January 2024
Interview Date: 26 January 2024
