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SalaryWe are looking for a permanent Team Manager to work within our strong Assessment Service Management Team.
Our Assessment Service is part of Bolton Council’s Front Door and takes referrals and Assessments from the Integrated Front Door. The assessments are regarding children who are at risk of significant harm and in need of support to ensure their welfare and protection. The teams are responsible for Section 47 enquiries, social care assessments, Initial Child Protection Conferences, issuing Care Proceedings and the Public Law Outline.
The Team Manager will be responsible for the management, supervision, support and guidance of a team of social workers. The Team Managers ensure that the services offered to children are of the highest quality, ensuring effective safeguarding of children and adhering to statutory and legislative requirements.
You will be expected to ensure the standards of work through supervision, quality assurance, performance management and audit.
Alongside the management team and Senior Head of Service you will work together to drive forward the vision of improving services to ensure the most vulnerable children in Bolton are safe and their outcomes improved.
In Bolton we are passionate about keeping children and their families at the heart of all we do.
Bolton is a good authority to work for and is continually striving to improve services and work towards the Bolton 2030 vision of improving services for the most vulnerable across the town.
You will be provided with a career pathway, and personal development programme that suits your needs and be offered regular support and supervision. You will be working within a supportive senior management team in which there is a range of experience to draw upon and share.
You will have access to a wide range of benefits to support you to be the best you can be, including:
- Agile and flexible working options, ensuring you achieve a good work life balance.
- Essential care user allowance on top of your salary.
- Payment of SWE registration fees
- Generous annual leave – starting at 29 days per annum, rising to 32 days after 5 years’ service.
- Free parking and modern, well appointed, air-conditioned office accommodation with onsite café.
- Salary is flexible and will be dependent on experience and skills.
- Health and wellbeing support
- Excellent pension scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our staff benefit platform – Vivup, providing a wide range of benefits and savings
About You
You will need to be a qualified social worker with at least 3 years’ experience of safeguarding children, child protection and or Court work experience and experience of working at the Front Door.
We are looking for candidates who are motivated, ambitious, creative and committed to safeguarding children.
You will need to be resilient, and solution focused, with an ethos of effective team working and partnership working in a challenging environment.
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.
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