Team Manager - Children in Care
- Employer
- Medway Council
- Location
- Chatham, Kent
- Salary
- Up to £52,658 per annum inclusive of market premia
- Closing date
- 27 Mar 2022
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- Job Sector
- Children, Domiciliary & Residential Care, Families, Young People
- Job Role
- Team Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Team Manager - Children in Care
Employer: Medway Council
Salary: Up to £52,658 per annum inclusive of market premia
Location: Chatham, Kent
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Flexible Hours/Full Time
Hours: 37 hours per week.
DBS Check: Enhanced
Closing Date: 27/03/2022 at 23:55
Reference: CSC634RJ
We are recruiting an experienced Team Manager to join our Children in Care Team and help us achieve our vision for all our children, young people and families in Medway. You will be joining Medway's vision on supporting Children and Young people to make them feel safe and secure whilst ensuring Children and Young People's voices are listened to and acted upon.
As a registered social worker with SWE you will have a minimum of 5 years post qualifying experience working with children and families in the statutory sector. You will also be able to demonstrate a breadth of knowledge and experience and ideally have experience of working with ‘Signs of Safety’ or a similar relationship and strengths-based practice framework.
As the Team Manager, you will have to lead, manage, and motivate experienced staff and newly qualified workers, whilst also deputising and supporting the Group Manager where necessary. This role is a full-time, and permanent position.
You will be motivated, committed and passionate about making a difference to the lives of children, young people and families. You will be able to build effective working relationships, demonstrate strong analytical skills and robust understanding of the care proceedings process.
Sitting alongside colleagues within the Corporate Parenting Service, this is an exciting career opportunity for an experienced manager to lead the children in care team, while focusing on the delivery of outstanding care planning to ensure children and young people experience the best possible care and achievement of permanence at the earliest opportunity.
In return for your commitment, we are proud to offer an excellent benefits package including a market premia payment of £4000 per annum (paid in 12 equal payments) and a retention payment of £3000 per annum (paid after 1 years’ continuous service with Medway).
For an informal discussion please contact Laura Saunders, Group Manager for Children in Care on 01634 337328
If you would like to talk to a current Team Manager in the Children in Care Team to learn more about the role, please contact Charleen Carnell, 01634 334127
To Apply
Please click on the ‘Apply Online’ button. Alternatively email your cv with a covering letter to cscrecruitment@medway.gov.uk, quoting CSC634RJ
Candidates must have a valid driving licence for use in the UK and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.
Our organisation:
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.
Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.
To find out more about Medway the place please click here.
Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support.
For more information on our Children & Adults Social Care jobs please visit: www.medwaysocialcarejobs.co.uk.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.
How to apply
Please be advised that we only accept online applications submitted through JobsGoPublic ATS
If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.
All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email, if you require documentation/correspondence in different format such as braille or large print, please contact the Resourcing Team on 01634 332878.
Further information on this vacancy
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It’s our Practice that will make the difference
In Children’s Services and across all our social work practice we are committed to social work values and promoting the professionalism of social work. Our delivery of children’s services is informed by our vision of achieving positive change for families we work with so that children are safe, services are effective, and families feel supported and enabled to care for their children.
We are committed to establishing a skilled and permanent workforce. We have four defined social work roles, NQSW; Social Worker; Experienced Social Worker and Senior Practitioner to support practitioners to stay in practice. Medway Children and Adults Academy has a comprehensive programme of training and support including an ASYE programme and post qualifying accredited training for experienced practitioners and managers. We will support you through training, reflective group and individual supervision, coaching, team and service meetings as well as offering a wealth of opportunities to help you with your continuous professional development.
Medway has been successful as the lead partner to obtain funding for the Kent – Medway and South East England Teaching Partnership, with Kent County Council, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University. Together we will develop joint approaches to recruitment, curriculum development and delivery, to meet identified needs both for students and qualified social workers.
The Medway model of social work uses Signs of Safety as a foundation for understanding the complex problems our families face and it supports our belief that children are best cared for within their families so long as this is safe. We use the Signs of Safety practice model to organise and describe our work with children and families throughout our case records; the model is used in our Child Protection Conferences. Specific models of assessment and intervention are used for identified needs such as the Graded Care Profile; Parenting Assessments and Direct work with Children. Our professional development offer includes training in all these areas and also the Practice Education of social work students. We have redesigned our career progression scheme to reward continuity of practice and designed career pathways that reflect the importance we place on the work social workers undertake.
To achieve our vision, we need your experience. You will be working in teams which consist of 6 social workers, and a team manager who will provide management oversight and support. In addition each team will also have dedicated administrative support. Retention payments and additional benefits are provided to support a long term career in Medway.
Why Medway?
Medway is a truly great place to live, work, learn and visit. Medway is one of south-easts most aspiring and developing destinations. Its name is taken from the magnificent river that flows through it, and comprises of five main towns, Chatham, Strood, Rochester, Gillingham and Rainham.
Medway is rich in heritage, hosts more than 30 days of free festivals and events each year and offers beautiful natural landscapes– as well as a range of shops, bars and restaurants for every occasion
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