Team Manager Permanence-Post order
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker,
Salary: £46,404-£50,865 plus market premia of £3,000
Working Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 7th October 2024
Interview Date(s): 21st October 2024
About the Role
The Adoption Service are pleased to offer a unique and attractive Team Manager post, covering Post Order Support. The post holder will be a trauma informed, compassionate leader, who has an interest in developing the therapeutic offer and knowledge of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund.
They will benefit from access to therapeutic training and will lead a highly skilled and long-standing team of professionals supporting children and young people on an Adoption, Special Guardianship or Child Arrangement Order. They will also have the privilege of managing the Birth Records Counselling service, sharing birth information before adoption, to adult adoptees.
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
To apply for this post, you must have :
- Relevant Degree or equivalent
- Professional Social Work Qualification
- Substantial post qualifying experience of working with children and families experience
- Experience of statutory childcare work, including safeguarding, child protection and court processes
- Experience of managing staff
- 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
- Good organisational skills, prioritisation and managing heavy workloads
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:
Gemma Barber, Team Manager or Michelle Robinson, Assistant Service Manager
Email: gemma.barber@leics.gov.uk Tel: 0116 305 6562 / michelle.robinson@leics.gov.uk Tel: 0116 305 0448
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.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
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:
Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
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