Team Manager: Leaving Care
- Employer
- Telford & Wrekin Council
- Location
- Darby House, TF3 4JA
- Salary
- £41,846 - £44,697
- Closing date
- 16 Apr 2020
- Reference
- TWC000003370
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- Sector
- Health & Social Care / Work
- Job Type
- Social care, Social work; Children - Qualified
- Contract Type
- Full time permanent
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Leaving Care
Team Leader: Leaving Care
£41,846 - £44,697 per annum plus Golden Hello of £3,000 for experienced Children & Family Social workers.
Grade: PO14
37 hours per week
We are recruiting to the leaving care team leader role to drive forward our offer to young people between 18 and 25.
You will have an excellent knowledge of the Leaving Care legislation, guidance and best practice and a passion for supporting our care leavings into their future.
This is an opportunity to use your management skills to streamline an effective service and be creative in making improvements that will directly impact our care leavers. As a team manager you must be able to lead and motivate your Care Leavers’ Team, ensuring communication across all parties in order to implement the statutory duties and responsibilities to high standards. You will be a pro-active analytical thinker, with experience of working within a multi-agency context as well as having a sound knowledge and understanding of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. You will also need to be a strong team worker, who brings ideas for service delivery and in partnership with young people.
For further information on the role please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
Please note employees who are at risk will be considered first for this position. Only if an appointment is not made will other candidates be considered.
We are committed to equality and diversity. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check.Sorry but CVs will not be accepted.
Please contact Marie Hatton (01952 385647) or Robert Newlands (01952 3803348) if you have any queries.
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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.
At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.
Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.
In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.
We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here
You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy commitments and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here
If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk
- Website
- http://www.telford.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01952 380000
- Location
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Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom
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