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SalaryAbout the role:
We have a fantastic career opportunity for an experienced Service Manager to join our team. This is an exciting time to be joining, as we are in a period of significant transformation, now delivering services as a Trust for two unitary authorities across the county.
The Children’s Trust allows for a single focus on improving the outcomes of children and young people and will aim to develop a working culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish, aiming to deliver at the cutting edge of innovation.
What will you be doing?
Duty and assessment are the single point of contact for all safeguarding concerns relating to children and young people. Our professionals provide a range of services that have contact with children, young people, their families, and carers. We collaborate to ensure immediate and prompt responses and combine our knowledge and expertise, to keep children and young people safe from harm.
With a rotating duty element, the team works at pace, completing robust short-term quality assessments of need, ensuring the right service provision is in place. Skilled social workers in these teams are friendly and confident professionals, who can work collaboratively to very tight deadlines and ensure the child’s voice is evident throughout.
There are 6 teams within DAAT, each team consists of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner (who holds complex cases and supports up to 6 Social Workers / Senior Social Workers); a Newly Qualified Social Worker; and a family support worker within their team.
We collaborate with other professionals to ensure immediate and prompt responses. Their combined knowledge and expertise keep children and young people safe from harm. We are supporting excellence in social work practice, with a Signs of Safety based approach, and clear personal development opportunities for the right candidates.
About you:
It will be important that you have the desire to want to make a personal contribution towards improving our service.
- You will be a qualified social worker
- Registered with the SWE with extensive post-qualifying experience of statutory social care practice and management and experience of Duty and Assessment.
- You will have a sound understanding and ability in relation to effective management practices, particularly as they relate to service planning and performance management and development of services and staff.
- Driving Licence essential.
Benefits:
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:
- 2 Day Induction Programme
- 2 days Signs of Safety training (social care colleagues)
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Local government Pension Scheme
- Heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
- Employee Discount Scheme
- 28 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years’ service
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Monthly quality supervision
- SWE Registration paid yearly (social care colleagues)
