Team Manager - Leaving Care Council Posted -Expires

Salary and benefits

• Grade k scp 39 £ 50,269 to scp 43 £ 54,495, essential car user allowance up to £963pa - Pay award pending
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Hours:
  
  37 per week
• Essential qualifications:
  Social Work Qualification and registered with Social Work England.
• Essential requirement: full driving licence
• Interview date: TBC
• For further information about this role, contact:

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Do you want to join a service where Ofsted said at our recent inspection: “Social workers are well supported and say they feel valued” and “Social workers describe a culture of regular and reflective supervision.”? In 2023 we retained our overall GOOD grading from Ofsted in our ILACS. We are now recruiting a Team Manager within the Leaving Care Team.

Bolton is a fantastic place to work, and our employees thrive working here. We are proud of our Bolton Family, of which you will become an integral part. We are keen to support you to progress in your social work journey with training and development opportunities. Join Bolton Children’s Services and be part of a team where your expertise is valued and your decisions make a difference every day.

• Lead the management, supervision, support and guidance of a team of social workers and Personal Advisors.
• Ensure that the services offered to children and young people are of the highest quality, ensuring effective safeguarding of children and adhering to statutory and legislative requirements.
• Ensure excellent standards of work are steered through supervision, quality assurance, performance management and audit.
• Drive a culture of care, safeguarding, aspiration and ambition, ensuring that each young person receives the consistent support and opportunities they need to achieve their full potential.
• Work with the management team, Head of Service and Strategic Lead to drive forward the vision of improving services to ensure the most vulnerable children and young people in Bolton are safe and their outcomes improved.

We are looking for people who are confident and motivated, who thrive in a dynamic environment and enjoy making well‑informed decisions that have a real impact.

• Have at least three years post‑qualifying experience and a strong understanding of children’s social care and leaving care practice.
• Be skilled in analysing information from multiple sources, assessing risk, and making safe, timely and proportionate threshold decisions for children in care and care leavers.
• Bring excellent communication skills, enabling you to build positive professional relationships, provide clear advice and guidance.
• Be confident in quality assuring and presenting accurate and concise information both verbally and in writing.
• Need to be resilient and solution‑focused, with an ethos of effective team working, partnership working and leadership.
• Be able to show transferable skills that enable you to be an effective Team Manager in a challenging but rewarding area of Children’s Social Care.
• Act as a champion for continuous improvement, role‑model high standards of practice, embed Research in Practice, and contribute positively to the ongoing development within Children’s Social Care.

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 and 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. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension…