• Job Title:                           Assessment Team Manager (Children's Social Care)
• Job Location:                    Tewkesbury & Stroud
• Salary;                              £45,468 - £47,665 per annum 
• Hours per Week:              37
• Contract Type:                  Permanent                   
• Job Requisition Number:  822 
• Open to Job Share or Part- Time Hours

Location: Tewkesbury & Stroud 
 

Gloucestershire’s vision is “to give every child the best possible chance of a remarkable life, especially those children who are disadvantaged and vulnerable.”

We have ambitious improvement and transformation plans to create the optimum conditions within which our staff can make a real difference and improve outcomes for children.

Reward & Support: Here’s what we offer in return for your hard work. A generous pay and reward programme including:

• £5,000 Welcome Payment*
• £2,000 Retention Payment*
• Up to £8,000 Relocation Package*
• Flexible working opportunities
• Employee Benefits Programme
• Annual Leave entitlement of 24.5 days rising to 29.5 days after 5 years continuous service.

*Please note, all our welcome payments and retention payments are non-contractual, pro-rata for part time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions.

We also offer all children’s social care staff a clearly defined career pathway with support and encouragement from management for individuals to fulfil their potential.  

Our Vision: Committed to building the best, our Children’s Services are on the lookout for high calibre social workers with a track record of excellence, commitment and delivery to the highest standards, securing the best outcomes for the children and young people with whom they work.

Our team structures are designed to ensure there is the right level of support available to staff and that caseloads are kept at a manageable level with a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, 4 Social workers and an ASYE making up each team’s full complement of staff.

You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do: of Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect. For more information about our values, click here.

Your Role: As a Team Manager, we’ll ask you to lead and support a team of social workers to deliver services of the highest quality. Ensuring statutory duties and best practice is followed, you’ll develop a team plan in line with Children’s Services strategic objectives and provide management oversight on all cases with a clear understanding of risk. Your role will focus on managing the team’s workflow and quality assuring work through observations, reflective supervision and GCC’s quality assurance framework, as well as contributing towards the development of the framework itself. Through building positive relationships with colleagues within both the service and partner agencies, you will ensure we are able to provide support and protection for vulnerable children and young people across the County.

As well as your experience as a frontline social worker, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• A recognised qualification in Social Work
• Social Work England registration
• To have passed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE)
• A full driving licence and willingness to drive
• DBS clearance 

Your Team: Our Assessment Teams operate across the county, providing the initial responses to safeguarding referrals. They are responsible for visiting families, completing single assessments and working with families up until Initial Child Protection Conferences where this is necessary. Their focus is on delivering good quality assessments which take account of historical information, culture, disability and the views of the children.

About our Social Work Academy: The Gloucestershire Children’s Services Social Work Academy offers leadership of practice to develop outstanding Social Workers and Social Work leaders who effect positive change for children, young people and families in Gloucestershire.  The aim of our Academy is to support workers at all levels, from students and newly qualified Social Workers to our Senior Leaders with their professional accreditation responsibilities and career progression options, as well as ensuring that our Children’s Services workforce receive the highest quality Continuing Professional Development to make sure we are the best at what we do. For more information on our Social Work Academy please click here.

For an informal chat about this role, please email CSWRecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk or alternatively apply directly here https://careers.gloucestershire.gov.uk/GloucestershireCounty/job/Assessment-Team-Manager-Glou/754150555/  

To ensure a personalised and responsive recruitment experience all applicants will receive a call from the recruitment team to discuss this role, where you would like to practice and in what area and to book you in for an interview. 

Additional Information

Assessment Team Manager (Children's Social Work) - Job Profile

Gloucestershire Children’s Social Work Recruitment Booklet

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview.  Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s).  These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education.  In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees   We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior).  To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

This Position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.