Team Manager Care Leavers and Transition
Children's Services

COVID-19 IMPORTANT NOTICE – Please note that due to the current COVID-19 restrictions we will not be conducting face to face interviews. If you are shortlisted the recruiting manager will email you with further details.

Progress House
Westwood Park
Wigan
WN3 4HH

Salary: Grade 12, £44,632 - £48,104 per annum.

37 hours per week

Your role:

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of enthusiastic and committed staff who are skilled and experienced in promoting positive outcomes for our care leavers. You will focus on delivering continuous improvement in performance, work alongside our Children in Care Teams to ensure effective and timely transition to adulthood. You will be expected to be creative and lead on Greater Manchester initiatives to improve our Local Offer and GM cross authority agreements. 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 care leavers through raising practice standards.

About you:

As Team Manager of the Care Leavers and Transition Team, you will be a committed, innovative, confident and energetic leader committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for looked after children and care leavers. 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 significant 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 best possible outcomes for young people leaving care.
You will have excellent knowledge of statutory frameworks and processes as well as relevant leaving care 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 young people in our borough.
About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2019 LGC 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 Jacqui Hardman at jacqui.hardman@wigan.gov.uk

To view the details relating to this position, please click the links below:

Job Specification
DBS Applicant Information
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Interview date: Monday 20 April 2020

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This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures

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Location
Progress House
Vacancy Description
 
COVID-19 IMPORTANT NOTICE – Please note that due to the current COVID-19 restrictions we will not be conducting face to face interviews. If you are shortlisted the recruiting manager will email you with further details.

Progress House
Westwood Park
Wigan
WN3 4HH

Salary: Grade 12, £44,632 - £48,104 per annum.

37 hours per week

Your role:

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of enthusiastic and committed staff who are skilled and experienced in promoting positive outcomes for our care leavers. You will focus on delivering continuous improvement in performance, work alongside our Children in Care Teams to ensure effective and timely transition to adulthood. You will be expected to be creative and lead on Greater Manchester initiatives to improve our Local Offer and GM cross authority agreements. 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 care leavers through raising practice standards.

About you:

As Team Manager of the Care Leavers and Transition Team, you will be a committed, innovative, confident and energetic leader committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for looked after children and care leavers. 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 significant 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 best possible outcomes for young people leaving care.
You will have excellent knowledge of statutory frameworks and processes as well as relevant leaving care 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 young people in our borough.
About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2019 LGC 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 Jacqui Hardman at jacqui.hardman@wigan.gov.uk

To view the details relating to this position, please click the links below:

Job Specification
DBS Applicant Information
Privacy Notice

Interview date: Monday 20 April 2020

Find out more about working for Wigan

This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures

The employer is committed to safeguarding