Team Manager x 3

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Job description
Team Manager X3 - Opportunities at Bristol City Council

Location:

North Area Office (BS11 0QE)

• 1 Full-Time Team Manager Role (Permanent)

South Area Office (BS13 0EE)

• 1 Full-Time Team Manager Role (Permanent)
• 1 Part-Time Team Manager Role (2.5 or 3 days per week, Fixed Term until 31.03.25)

You must be a registered social worker to apply for this role

About the Role:

Are you a social work manager or an experienced social worker with strong supervisory skills? Are you seeking a management position in a dynamic social work office in Bristol? If you possess excellent management abilities and proven ability in Child Protection and Court Work, we want to hear from you!

Each small team comprises a Team Manager, three full-time Social Workers, a full-time Family Support Worker, and a full-time Administrator. You will manage these five colleagues and lead the practice. Our office-based environment, without hot-desking, offers ample opportunity to build strong relationships with your team and other managers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, support, and supervise one of the small teams based at either Ridingleaze House or Symes House in Bristol.

• Work closely with children in need, children on a child protection plan, and family re-unification, as well as undertake court work.

• Utilise the Signs of Safety model and collaborate with families and professionals to create positive changes for children.

• Embed systemic social work principles in practice.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with co-located Family in Focus and YOS services.

Why Join Us?

"96% of our staff said they feel respected and supported by their colleagues."

• Be part of a supportive and friendly area service.

• Enjoy strong management team support, good supervision, peer support, and easy access to senior managers.

• Benefit from not hot-desking, allowing you to form solid relationships with your team and other managers.

• Access a range of high-quality training and development opportunities.

Application Process: If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

Demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application.

Note that Bristol City Council requests references for candidates offered a job, and for roles requiring a Disclosure and Barring Service check, references will be requested once you are invited to an interview.

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Contact Information:

• If you would like to talk over the position In North Office please contact either bryan@bristol.gov.uk or louise.jenner@bristol.gov.uk

• If you would like to talk over the position In South Office please contact either murphy@bristol.gov.uk or james.arthure@bristol.gov.uk

If easier phone Katrina Murphy on 077950 91412 and she can point you in the right direction.

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the City we service. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.