You will also be comfortable deputising for the Team Manager, managing performance, chairing meetings, and supporting recruitment and retention efforts.

About the team…
The Children's Specialist Support Team (CSST) is a highly skilled and supportive group of professionals dedicated to working with children who have disabilities and/or complex health needs. Our focus is on keeping children at the heart of everything we do. We deliver a range of services, including support for children with additional vulnerabilities, statutory responsibilities for disabled Children in Need, care packages, and short breaks.

Our team is diverse, covering a broad range of areas, including social work, occupational therapy and short breaks, such as Larchwood, our respite unit. We embrace a "child-first" and social model approach, valuing partnership and collaboration as key to our success.

As a small and welcoming Local Authority, we pride ourselves on our inclusive culture and strong sense of community. We prioritise staff wellbeing and foster a supportive environment where everyone feels connected and valued., To support the Team Manager to manage the delivery and performance of the Children's Specialist Support Team, including recruitment/retention, workload allocation and management, induction, supervision and development of staff, disciplinary/capability performance management and succession planning.
To promote and support the Council's policies and procedures for safeguarding, ensuring children are at the centre of all decisions, and the social model of disability is respected in all work.
To ensure arrangements for regular engagement/participation with children and young people, parents and carers by all staff within the service and to lead on investigations and response to complaints from service users/relatives/carers.
To lead on strategy discussions, child in need meetings, professional meetings and other forums, working together with partner agencies to conclude with safe and proportionate threshold decision and planning.
To undertake regular reviews of, and track, performance data alongside the Team Manager.
Completing audits and contributing to audit programmes and frameworks.
To develop and maintain effective internal and external working relationships, ensuring a positive working culture within the team, and working collaboratively with multi-agency partners, including chairing reviews, planning meetings, strategy discussions and other professional/network meetings.
Providing high quality, reflective supervision (in line with the supervision policy) including providing feedback and analysis of performance.
To develop and maintain accurate case records and comply with the department's policies, procedures and guidelines including data protection and GDPR.
To contribute to service development and learning of others.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Assistant Team Manager who is a registered social worker with Social Work England and with post qualifying experience working with children and families in the statutory sector to join our Children's Specialist Support Team and make a difference to the lives of children and young people.

About you…
You will have significant post-qualifying experience in statutory work with children and families, and a strong understanding of assessment, planning, and intervention to ensure the right plans are in place and needs lead services and interventions are provided for children and families.

You will be a natural leader with the ability to build effective relationships, demonstrate strong analytical skills, and work collaboratively as part of a management team. You will have direct responsibility for social workers, including newly qualified social workers, and family workers., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
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