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SalaryThis post is a designated Team Manager role with responsibility for managing the Children At Risk Through Exploitation (CATE) Service and you will need to have an in-depth knowledge, and understanding of both Child Exploitation and Missing Children
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Promote partnership working with a range of statutory, independent and voluntary services and maintain links with other relevant organisations to ensure collaborative working between service users, carers and key partner agencies. Ensure that the service is positively promoted in the public domain in a way that encourages a better understanding of its work.
- Prioritise and plan team objectives, highlighting resource issues to the Service Delivery Manager and ensuring that the team meet their objectives and targets within agreed timeframes and resources.
- Provide the highest level of professional leadership, motivation and direction to a team of qualified social workers / CATE Practitioner and others to ensure that the service provided is effective and meets the needs of children, young people and their families
- Be accountable for the practice of social workers / CATE Practitioners and others within the team. Ensuring that effective and sufficient professional and practice supervision, as well as performance appraisals, take place. Seek out, identify and provide opportunities for students and apprentices and support mentoring and coaching to enhance the quality of practice within the team.
- Support the Group Manager in overseeing the quality of work across Exploited Children Service area, taking a lead role to fully embed the Contextual Safeguarding model of practice.
- Ensure Missing Procedures are followed and Return Home Interviews are completed.
- Keep up to date with service specific legislation, Ofsted regulations and recommendations, guidance, good practice, and other developments within social work and develop ways of implementing and embedding these in practice. Promote new professional practices in the social work field with the team and across the services. Develop and initiate positive changes to the practice, procedures, and policy and specifically the professional development of the team.
- Initiate and chair Child Protection Strategy Meetings, Professional Meetings, Risk Panel and core groups for particular children as required, monitoring the performance of agreed tasks for all participants. Chair/lead reflective practice group meetings as required.
- Promote equality as an integral part of the role and treat everyone with fairness and dignity.
For more information about working for Telford & Wrekin Children's Social Care, please view our recruitment page: https://www.telford.gov.uk/cscr or For more information about working for Telford & Wrekin, please view our recruitment page: https://www.telford.gov.uk/ascr Please contact Tina Knight on 01952 385686 or email hubprojectteam@telford.gov.uk
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
- Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
- Free on-site parking
- Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
- Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling
- Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments
Find out further information about working at Telford & Wrekin Council including our full list of benefits.
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Job description & Person Specification
