Team Manager Children in Care Court

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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:

• SWE Registration
  paid yearly (social care colleagues)
• Recruitment
  Welcome Bonus of £2,200
• Relocation
  costs of up to £8,000
• 28days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days,after 5 years
• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health pension protection.
• Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
• 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
• Extensive Learning & Development and
  career development opportunities
• Subsidised town centre car parking scheme

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Team Manager to join the Children in Care West team at Northamptonshire Children’s Trust.

As Team Manager, you will provide effective leadership and oversight, ensuring workloads are allocated and prioritised appropriately to keep children’s welfare and outcomes at the heart of service delivery. You will play a key role in developing and supporting your team to deliver a high-quality, efficient, and responsive service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the delivery of the team’s objectives, driving performance, and ensuring key targets and outcomes are achieved.

The Team Manager should ideally have experience of working with Children in Care complex needs and their families.

• You will supervise Social Workers and Family Support Workers with a range of cases, where the focus and oversight will be the effective progression of Care Planning to ensure the best outcomes for our children and young people. The team focusses on children that are children in care on a longer term basis but does complete court work.
• You will have excellent time management and organisations skills to oversee your dedicated team.
• You will demonstrate high levels of resilience, managing and prioritizing demanding workloads.
• Excellent people management and strong leadership skills to manage your own team.
• You will be able to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partner agencies to ensure positive outcomes for children in care.
• Be a good problem solver, supporting your team of practitioners to make best interest decisions for children in line with legislative, regulatory and best practice guidelines.
• You will use management information systems to maintain and drive good performance and quality of the practice in your team.
• You will demonstrate professionalism, leadership and accountability and possess excellent skills in problem solving, analysis and planning.

You should be registered with Social Work England. Previous leadership experience in a similar role. You will provide leadership to your team, who will consist of a Apprentice…