Assistant Team Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Team Manager to join our Youth in Sight team, which is a multi-disciplinary team working with adolescents aged 10-18 years who present with complex needs relating to their mental health or emotional dysregulation. This will include young people with repeat hospital admissions and those that are likely to require therapeutic care without early intervention and the provision of services to them and their families to support them to remain safely within their family home.

Walsall Children's Social Care are dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate services for children and young people. We believe in nurturing the potential of every young person, and we are seeking passionate professionals to join our multidisciplinary team in our mission to support adolescents (10-18 years old) during a crucial phase of their development.

We are looking for a dynamic and empathetic individual to join our multidisciplinary team to empower, understand and support adolescents and their families at times of need. The team adopts a holistic and coordinated approach when working with parents, the young person and the system that surrounds the family. We believe that by establishing a strengths-based approach and relational way of working with families we will build authentic relationships and secure positive outcomes.

The Youth In Sight team includes social workers, parenting support officer, systemic family therapist, youth worker and speech and language therapist who adopt a relational approach and work with a small cohort of young people, giving you the time and space to work intensively with the family and be able to make considered and balanced decisions. You will have access to the collective expertise of disciplines, enhancing your capacity to develop effective solutions and contemplate the broader context.

As an Assistant Team Manager within the team, you will lead in Group Supervisions every 4 weeks to measure success, reflect on the intervention with the family and identify any areas of concern.

Team members will use a shared database to ensure information is accessible and shared with each other promptly. All team members are trained to use the 'Valuing Care Tool' to help us really understand a young person's needs and be able to measure impact of our support and intervention.

You will jointly lead and manage part of a social work team under the direction of the Team Manager to ensure that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard and promote their welfare.

You will collaborate with the wider partnership to secure support and form a holistic view of the family's circumstances, and adopt a 'Think Family' approach when considering the needs of the whole family unit.

You will promote and contribute to the development of high quality of practice and service delivery within the team.

You will support and supervise frontline practitioners, and to be aware of and manage performance within the team. You will offer support to ASYE social workers, including reflective conversations, support, guidance and co-working.

As an Assistant Team Manager, you will have access to specialist training commissioned by the Practice Development Hub.

You will demonstrate commitment to your own practice development and continued professional development and be registered with Social Worker England.

Walsall is an OFSTED rated outstanding, innovative and creative local authority, but above all our friendly supportive culture ensures practitioners have the right support to grow and develop.

You are part of a challenging profession, that's why we ensure you are never alone but instead surrounded by approachable practitioners and managers. Allowing you to spend time on what counts, direct work with children young people and families.

Career development pathways and flexible hybrid working will make you want Walsall to be in your future!

Our family help service will align our family safeguarding model and targeted early help teams in supporting children, young people and families as soon as possible.

We've created a new role of Lead Child Protection Practitioner, and you simply won't find that anywhere else. We're continuing to develop our multi-agency child protection team. It's all about developing systems and practices with partners including the police, health, and probation services to form an expert network of child protection leads and specialists.

We're committed to growing and developing our own workforce. So you'll be supported throughout their career to become skilled and confident through our learning and development offer.

We also want you to achieve and maintain a healthy work life balance and there ' s a range of employee benefits to suit everyone ' s lifestyles.

• Flexible working - there are different options depending on your role and on customer and service needs, and it includes 9-day…