Family Team Manager

Leicester City Council's Children's Social Care service is recruiting a permanent Family Help Team Manager to lead one of its Children's Social Work Clusters. The role centres on leading supervision and team performance, alongside managing a caseload within Family Help social work that uses Signs of Safety, trauma-informed practice and the Lundy model of participation. The post is hybrid, combining home working with time at Leicester offices, and includes an out-of-hours rota.

Applicants must be practising social workers in the UK, with Social Work England registration.

• Lead and manage the performance of the Family Help team
• Lead supervision of social workers
• Manage a range of cases within a Family Help social work service
• Motivate and develop staff, guiding the team to work flexibly
• Apply Signs of Safety as the model of intervention
• Underpin practice with trauma-informed practice and the Lundy model of participation
• Use evidence-based practice and research to inform decisions
• Support the council's work on addressing racial injustice for families and across the workforce
• Cover out-of-hours work on a rota

• Relevant professional qualification, such as a social work degree, DipSW, CQSW or CSS, or equivalent for education, police or health

• Social Work England registration
• Currently practising social work in the UK

• Experience of children's social work
• Strong track record of working with children, young people and families to achieve positive outcomes

• Knowledge of legislation relevant to children's social work
• Motivating and developing staff effectively
  
  Guiding a team to work flexibly
• Working under pressure
• Awareness of issues affecting vulnerable children, families and carers, including looked after children

• Enhanced children's DBS check

• Generous annual leave
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Agile and flexible working
• Training and development programme
• Flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers
• Discounts on city buses and trains
• Help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate
• Supervision, learning and wellbeing support