Workforce and Partnerships Team Manager

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to become a Team Manager within our newly established Family Help Service. This role is an essential part of ensuring both the service and partnership are supported, to provide support to children and families at the earliest opportunity. The role will lead on working with partners to support early help work across the partnership and in line with this provide workforce development opportunities across Family Help and the wider partnership.

As part of our ongoing commitment to practice improvement, the role will also deliver on quality assurance activity to support the Family Help service and wider Early Help system.

The role will require close working with senior managers to improve the quality of Family Help services delivered to Children and Families and lead on developing strong and robust approaches to partnership support across the Early Help system. This will include leading the development and delivery of partnership support, workforce development opportunities and line management of Early Help Consultants.

We are open to flexible working and have a range of options; we and are happy to discuss this further.

For an informal discussion, please contact Nicola Murphy, Strategic Lead
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You will be a passionate and experienced manager with an understanding and experience of Early Help work with Children and Families, and a good understanding of Family Help developments. You will have experience of working in partnership, building relationships across the partnership and supporting partners in the context of Early Help work. You will have experience of developing and delivery workforce training to improve practice.

You will have experience of undertaking quality assurance activity and have the proven ability to analyse data and information to support ongoing improvements across Family Help. You will have experience of managing high performing teams, utilising a restorative approach to leadership and leading by example. You will be an approachable and confident leader, who embraces creativity and approaches change with a ‘can do’ attitude to overcome challenges.

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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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