Team Manager - Children with Disabilities Team

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Team Manager – Children with Disabilities

The Children with Disabilities Team (CwDT) supports children with complex and profound needs as a result of their disabilities.

The team is passionate about working with children, families and other professionals to achieve the best outcomes for vulnerable children. The team undertakes Family Help Assessments and works with Children in Need, children subject to Child Protection Plans and Children in Care. A multi-disciplinary approach is modelled in the team in partnership with both universal and mainstream services to support children, young people and their families.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

We are recruiting for 2 Social Work Qualified Team Managers in CwDT.

• 18.5 hours permanent covering our South locality
• 18.5 hours 1 year maternity cover covering our North locality

(Please state which role you are applying for as part of your application)

This is an exciting opportunity to take the next step in your career or try something new. Experience in a disabilities team is not essential; we are looking for candidates with substantial qualified social work experience in a statutory setting and relevant skills, knowledge, and strong transferable skills such as leadership, decision-making, and the ability to support and develop a team.

If you share our passion for delivering excellent services for children and families, relational practice working collaboratively with partners, and driving good practice, we would love to hear from you.

• Lead and manage a team of social workers and support staff to ensure timely and high-quality help and support for children and families
• Oversee the allocation and prioritisation work with children and families, ensuring compliance with statutory timescales and organisational policies.
• Provide professional supervision, guidance, and support to team members, promoting continuous learning and development.
• Monitor performance and quality of practice implementing improvements where necessary to maintain best practice standards.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies and internal teams to deliver coordinated and effective services for children and families.
• Ensure safeguarding principles are embedded in all decision-making and practice within the team.
• Contribute to service development and improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
• Manage resources effectively, including staff workload and budgets, to achieve service objectives.

Applicants for the role will need a professional Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration
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If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. This role is advertised with Warwickshire County Council.

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision.

We are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

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