Progress House
Westwood Park
Wigan
WN3 4HH
Salary: Grade 12, £44,632 - £48,108 per annum.
37 hours per week
Your role:
As a result of service redesign, we are excited to be recruiting to a range of Team Managers with Children’s Social Care from the following Service Areas:
Permanence and Children with Disability
Provider Services (fostering and residential)
You will be integral to delivering continuous improvement to enable our front-line practitioners to deliver outstanding practice. You will lead the delivery of quality practice within your team on a daily basis, ensuring the team comply with legislation and government guidance, so they stand up to scrutiny.
We are ambitious, and you will have a key role in our transformation programme working together with other team managers and our partners to deliver our strength based approach through multi-agency and collaborative working, with a relentless focus on improving outcomes for children through raising practice standards.
About you:
As Team Manager, you will be a committed, innovative, confident and energetic leader committed to achieving positive change for children and families. You will lead on the delivery, development of high-quality practice and robust performance management systems to ensure that your team is highly effective. You will be responsible for ensuring that Signs of Safety is an embedded as a practice model within the team.
A qualified and experienced social worker, you will also have experience as a manager and a proven track record of success, you’ll be ready to take on the crucial task of inspiring and influencing your Team and partners to achieve positive change and safety and permeance for children.
You will have excellent knowledge of statutory frameworks and processes as well as relevant legislation to ensure that your team is highly effective. You will be an excellent communicator, be able to develop and implement team plans, an effective decision maker with a passion to improve the lives for children in our borough.
About us:
Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2019 LGA Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.
Wigan is a fantastic place to work where we are able to offer you a wide range of both challenging and rewarding career development opportunities. Ofsted have recently highlighted that we are creating the right conditions for social work to thrive. You will have the chance to join a team of enthusiastic, knowledgeable and supportive managers who have recently committed to the Signs of Safety approach as our practice model. You would be a part of embedding this model across the whole service.
As an employer we like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits.
For further information, please contact Adele Ion or Alex Jones on Adele.ion@wigan.gov.uk or Alexandra.jones@wigan.gov.uk
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Interview date: Tuesday 1 October 2019
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