Team Manager (Cared for Children)

Children's Services in Tameside are looking for committed and enthusiastic Team Manager to join us in our Cared for Children Service who work with cared for children from 0-18 years of age. As Team Manager, you will lead a team consisting of a Senior Practitioner and 6 Social Workers. You will have responsibility for ensuring timely care and permanence planning for children and also transition planning to adulthood for the 16-18 year old young people. You will achieve this through professional and reflective supervision, supporting staff learning and development and ensuring the production of high quality work to improve the outcomes for our Cared for Children.

With fantastic leadership skills and attributes, you will ensure your team members are well supported and equipped to succeed. We expect you to have extensive frontline experience as well as a solid track record of managing and developing a team. Building positive relationships is important not just with the children, young people and families we work with but also with colleagues and external partner agencies., 1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND 2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND 3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND 4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level. This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

• Flexible working opportunities
• Social Work teams centrally located together
• A high standard of professional supervision and a focus on supporting professional development
• Manageable caseloads to enable reflective practice
Tameside are on a journey of improvement with significant support from our leadership team and so this is an exciting time to join Tameside and you will be part of a service that is highly committed, welcoming and supportive. In Tameside, we like to look after our employees and offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including:
• Minimum of 28 days leave each year, with the option to buy additional leave
• 36 hours working week
• Health and wellbeing support
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Discounts at local shops, health & fitness clubs, restaurants and much more