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Swindon Children’s Services are currently looking for a Team Manager to lead our dynamic, Child and Adult Emergency Duty Service (EDS).
This service is looking to recruit an innovative, highly motivated and experienced individual. EDS is the Local Authority’s out of hours first point of contact, for anyone who is concerned about the immediate safety and protection of a child, young person or vulnerable adult. We ensure an effective, response out of office hours (minimum of 129 hours a week) to our service users.
As the Team Manager of Swindon Emergency Duty Service, you will maintain and develop this effective service. Your management responsibility will be to line manage a team of Senior Social Work Practitioners and casual staff. You will provide the direct management of the team, as well as participate on the rota (average of 25% of your working hours).
The team undertake a range of assessments and interventions specifically linked to priority child in need, child protection, looked after children and vulnerable adult issues - the core work being child protection and urgent Mental Health Act assessments. This will include Strategy Discussions and Child / Adult investigations and urgent Mental Health Act assessments.
You will take forward the implementation of new initiatives, working closely with all of our partner agencies ensuring the provision of an effective comprehensive service which, at all times, aims to safeguard the children, young people and vulnerable adults of Swindon.
Essential requirements include a recognised professional Social Work qualification, management experience or comprehensive experience with another Emergency Duty Service. You will need to be an Approved Mental Health Professional with substantial post-qualification child protection experience, and hold current Social Work England registration.
An ability to travel throughout the Borough, plus an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required.
About You
Your aspirations should be limitless and you will be as determined and passionate about Children’s Services as we are. As a local authority, we continuously drive forward improvements in our services. We want our Social Workers to be part of our transformation, contribute to improving the safeguarding of our children, and we will make sure you have the full support network and training to do it.
Our teams are ambitious and proactive and we are looking for people who will share that ambition and be a part of our journey.
Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act – for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).
Our commitment to your development
We are dedicated to ensuring that you can progress your continued professional development and access training and learning opportunities linked to the BASW competencies for career progression.
We have an established Social Work & Leadership Academy. The Academy aims to celebrate the best in professional practice in Social Work and Social Care Leadership. The Academy represents an opportunity for us to demonstrate how we support, develop and value the professional disciplines in Social Work and Social Care through a targeted framework of career development and learning opportunities.
Your next package
- Relocation allowance of up to £8,000 (eligibility criteria applies)
- Competitive salaries
- Free car parking at our central Swindon campus and easy commuter links to many locations
Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.
As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.
Please see our Vison and Values page for more details
Your next steps
Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
For further information about the role please contact Nicki Mark, Service Manager at nmark@swindon.gov.uk
If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk
