Team Manager - Rugby Safeguarding and Support

Team Manager - Rugby Safeguarding and Support

Part-time - 30 Hours per week

 

About the role

We are looking for a Team Manager to join Rugby Safeguarding and Support team helping us to develop and drive forward our services. We are looking for committed, enthusiastic and motivated child focused individuals to help us improve the outcomes for our young people through ensuring good quality supervision and support for the social workers in the team.

 

 

You will manage and lead a team of Social Workers and other support staff ensuring they receive guidance, supervision and support. Work will be undertaken in line with statutory requirements and departmental policy and undertaken in cooperation with our partner agencies with whom we maintain very good relationships. You will be responsible for managing and allocating the workload, ensuring work is quality assured and assessments are robust with clear goals and timescales which have been developed with the families we work with. 

 

The role involves working with Social Workers and a number of partner agencies in the delivery of a quality service to children, young people and their families. You will monitor Child in Need Plans, Child Protection Plans and supervise workers engaged in Court Work and/or the provision of services to ensure that the outcomes of children are met.

 

This role will include responsibility for practice development within the team. Supporting ASYE's and more experienced Social Workers across the board to continue to develop and progress their practice. You will be responsible for undertaking appraisals; setting objectives and identifying training and development for your staff group setting clear training and development goals. We work to encourage professional curiosity, innovation and creativity and for Social Workers to feel supported in doing this.

 

About us

Rugby is a growing town and as a result of this and Warwickshire's investment in front line social work services we have expanded our service to meet the needs to the local community. We currently have four Team Managers who manage a team of social workers as well as other support staff. We are looking to recruit a Team Manager to our Children's Safeguarding and Support Service. Based within walking distance of Rugby town centre the service works with children from 0-18 who are in Need, where there are safeguarding concerns or where they are Looked After by the Local Authority which includes Care Proceedings and Adoption work.  

 

If you would like to join a team which constantly strives to achieve the best outcomes for the children and families we work with, embraces new social work practices and is committed to providing a supportive learning environment for social workers to develop their skills and practice then we want to hear from you!  

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We welcome applications from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.