Team Manager-Disabled Children's Service

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Job Description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Coalville, Hinckley, Loughborough localities

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £46,404- £50,865 per annum (plus market premia of £3,000 ) pro-rata for part time

Working Hours: 37 per week

Contract Type: Fixed term / Secondment for 12 Months

Closing Date: 9th October 2024

Interview Date(s): TBC

About the Role

We are excited to have a 12 month Fixed -term opportunity as a Team Manager in our Disabled Children's Service.

This is a great opportunity to work in a specialist service area, working with children subject to CIN Plans, CP Plans and CIC.

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.

About You

You will:

• Be a highly skilled and experienced Social Worker with Senior Practitioner and/or Team Manager experience.
• Able to Champion improved outcomes for children and young people in Leicestershire
• Able to ensure that children and families receive high quality, coordinated services which meet their needs and keep children safe.
• Work with partner agencies in a coordinated and integrated approach wherever possible to achieve good outcomes for children and families
• Take a lead in embedding the Departmental practice framework underpinned by the Signs of Safety Methodology to support the delivery of high quality social work practice
• Manage and oversee the Disabled Children's Service and undertake core team manager roles and responsibilities

To apply for this post, you must meet the below criteria

• Professional Social Work Qualification and Social Work England Registered
• Have post qualifying experience of working with children and families experience
• Have excellent safeguarding knowledge and best practice in the delivery of quality services
• Ability to analyse information to reach sound decisions, often under pressure, and to take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Service Manager.

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.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

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.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Hayley Binley, Head of Service

Telephone: 0116 305 7669

Email: hayley.binley@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

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About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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Our Organisational Values
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