Team Manager- Safeguarding

Exciting Opportunity: Team Manager - Safeguarding Team. Join our dedicated team at Leicestershire County Council as we strive to ensure the safety and well-being of children in our community. We are currently seeking a dynamic individual for the permanent position of Team Manager - Safeguarding Team, based in Wigston. We are seeking a Social Work Team Manager, with current Social Work England registration, with extensive social work experience in a child protection statutory setting. Preferably with some management experience. You will provide leadership to your team, who will consist of a senior practitioner , 4 social workers , support and assessment workers (who undertake parenting assessments) and 2 support staff (who supervise contact) You will be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads effectively to ensure the care of the child is paramount, whilst also ensuring you develop your team to provide an effective and efficient service. The right candidate will have responsibility for the whole team and will be expected to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved. Children's safeguarding teams complete work with children who are subject to child protection plans, and Public Law Outline/initial care proceedings. Utilising a relationship/trauma-based approach, where the young person is at the heart of everything we do. 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.

• Social Work degree or equivalent, e.g. CQSW, DipSW (with specialism in children's services), approved by Social Work England and evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of statutory childcare social work, including Child in Need, safeguarding, child protection and care proceedings.
• Experience of supervising staff and/or social work students.
• Management experience.
• Experience of using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
• Ability to analyse information to reach sound decisions, often under pressure, and take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Service Manager.
• Ability to apply the principles of equal opportunities in service provision and employment, promoting anti-discriminatory practice.
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.