Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade J. SCP 40 - £48,474 to SCP 43 - £51,515 with a professional bar at SCP 41 £49,498**
Hours: 36 Hours per Week
Base Location: Ashton Old Library, Old Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 7SG
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The role
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.
About you
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.
You will offer a high level of support and challenge to your Social Workers and inspire your teams to do their very best for Tameside children.
We firmly believe that all children in Tameside deserve the best start in life, and we are looking for the right people to help make this happen.
Why work for us?
- Supportive teams and a great, friendly working environment
- 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
To find out more about our rewards and benefits package click here
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
For further details about this role or informal discussion please contact Lorraine Bishop, Service Unit Manager on Lorraine.Bishop@tameside.gov.uk
This post requires an Enhanced DBS Disclosure. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.
** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:
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.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Reference Number: DPT369
Job Description and Person Specification Profile
