Permanent
Full Time, 37 Hours Per Week
Team Manager (Childrens and Families) – Mid & East
Are you an experienced Team Manager looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children and young people? Then we would love to hear from you!
We’re seeking an experienced Team Manager to support our children and young people in Axe Valley & Honiton area.
Our Team Managers make a vital contribution to the delivery of high-quality social care services. This is a great opportunity to grow your social work career with an ambitious authority at a time of exciting change. We’re embedding our new restorative practice approach across our teams and making significant investment in training our all practitioners and managers to build, maintain and repair relationships with our children and families.
Whilst previous management experience is desired, we welcome applications from candidates looking to take the next step in their careers.
If you’re looking to move to Devon, subject to qualifying conditions, we offer a generous relocation allowance. There’s never been a better time to make the move!
About the role
Our Children and Families teams are responsible for managing child-in-need and child protection cases as well as cases in legal proceedings and looked after children. The casework is varied, and you will be working creatively to promote positive change within the home environment.
As a Team Manager, you will embed a high-performance culture by helping your team to continually develop their skills so they can achieve the best outcomes for our children, young people and their families. Through reflective supervision meetings with your team, you’ll champion their personal and professional growth. Alongside your role as a people manager, you will provide oversight on all children and young people in your defined area, ensuring quality standards are maintained and championing restorative practice, working with children, families and young people to reduce risks, build on strengths and achieve positive outcomes together. The Team Manager will support a team consisting of Assistant Team Managers, Social Workers, ASYE’s and Family Practitioners.
To find out more about working and living in Mid & East, please view the attached Fact Sheet.
About us
We are on an exciting and ambitious journey of cultural change to embed restorative and relational ways of working. We believe that for the vast majority of families, the family home is the best place by far for children to live, with local, place-based support that includes help and support at the earliest opportunity from us and our partners. By making key changes and improvements, we have made sure that our social workers have access to better tools and technology: from mobile phones and laptops, to risk assessment training and care planning resources. Together, we've worked hard to get to know individual children better - understanding who they are and their needs, so we can implement appropriate interventions. By ensuring families have the necessary support, we can prevent concerns from escalating. We’re really proud of our workforce, and what has been achieved for children and families in Devon. Our social work teams are committed to providing the best service possible and are supported by our ambitious culture. We are keen to learn, grow and improve and we’re looking for people who share our values to join us.
For more information on working with us here in Devon, please visit ‘Working for Devon’ and Working in Childrens Social Care.
About you
An outstanding social worker with a strong understanding of safeguarding, you will have significant post-qualifying experience gained within at least two different social care environments. You will need to have:
What we can offer you
As a place to live and work, Devon is hard to beat. We want you to grow and develop with us. In recognition of the vital contribution you will make, we offer an attractive package including:
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To start your journey with DCC, click ‘Apply’ today! You will find a link attached to our Job Description. To arrange an informal discussion, please email Jacqueline.Sims@devon.gov.uk
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