Team Leader

Are you looking at developing your experience and furthering your career? We are looking for an experienced practitioner to take on a short-term role as Team Leader in Family help covering Charnwood locality 4 days per week and Hinckley locality once a week starting as soon as possible until the 30th of June 2025. This role will manage a team of Keyworkers and Family wellbeing workers working both on Targeted early help cases and Children in need as well as having some oversight of group work and duty cover. A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post. For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement., We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

• Experience of supporting staff and teams to maintain, develop and improve outcomes for children, young people and families, ideally including case supervision and management oversight
• :Experience of working within an outcomes driven framework and working in an environment dealing with sensitive and confidential information
• Knowledge of the triggers and barriers faced by children and young people and methods of identifying and engaging early, those vulnerable to poor outcomes and Knowledge of child development and the needs of children and young people
• Demonstrate the ability to build powerful relationships across stakeholders, peers and partners creating open and transparent relationships based on trust and demonstrate the ability to lead and deliver sustainable, collective high performance, through inspirational leadership of people, setting clear priorities, and a strong approach
• Knowledge of relevant theoretical, practical, and procedural approaches that help improve the lives of children and young people, and demonstrate an improvement in their outcomes
• Demonstrate the need for voices of children, young people and their families to be heard and ensure this is used to help to shape service delivery and outcome planning for children and families.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion. In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.