Social Work Team Manager - Safeguarding
- Northampton
- £58,327 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Highly competitive salaries
- £2,200 Welcome bonus
- Retention bonus
- Social Work England registration costs
- Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share
- The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
- Monthly high quality supervision
- Up to 27 day’s annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)
- Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
- Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme
- Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
- Employee discount schemes
- Up to £8,000 relocation allowance
- Signs of Safety training
- An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities
- Heavily subsidised city centre parking
- Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO
- Providing a quality, peripatetic service to the full spectrum of practice areas
- Be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads, managing a talented team of Senior Social Workers, who will be working across multiple service areas and effectively ensuring that the care of the child remains paramount
- Be responsible for recruiting and growing this Peripatetic Service, alongside your Management Team, ensuring their continuous development through quality supervision
- Have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved
- Be a qualified Social Worker, with current Social Work England registration, and ideally with a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification, or equivalent relevant experience
- Have experience and knowledge across a range of social work teams and services and demonstrably transferrable skills
- A strong, resilient, Social Work Team Manager with a breadth of experience, looking for a new, unique and exciting opportunity
- Be a highly competent and skilled people manager, incredibly organised and able to multi-task
- With strong emotional intelligence, patience and resilience, you will have the ability to manage a highly capable Senior Social Worker team and ensure development and performance issues are addressed though support and coaching
- Have had previous budgetary control experience, ICT skills and the ability to represent the service at a more senior level if required
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