Team Managers
- Recruiter
- Dudley Metropolitan BC
- Location
- Dudley
- Salary
- Grade 13 £44,188 - £47,464 (37 hours weekly)
- Posted
- 24 Nov 2016
- Closes
- 22 Dec 2016
- Sectors
- Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
HELP SHAPE OUR SERVICE
TEAM MANAGERS
Grade 13 £44,188 - £47,464 (37 hours weekly)
We are currently recruiting in the following areas: Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub, Looked After Children and Disability.
As a team manager you will:
- Be responsible for the leadership and management of a social work team, ensuring that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard and promote their welfare
- You will provide operational leadership, vision and direction by delivering service improvement within children’s social work
- You will actively promote and contribute to the strategic developments for children and their families across Dudley borough
- You will responsible for a team of staff from trainee social workers, ASYEs, social workers, senior social workers and support staff and accountable for ensuring the team achieves its operational plan: by promoting an appropriate culture: powering others and setting and maintaining high and measurable standards of practice.
Our vision is to give children the best start in life and to support families to be independent, responsible and successful and to ensure we provide the highest levels of public protection for our most vulnerable children.
We recognise the importance of investing in our workforce and are committed to giving you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills through our learning and development offer which is an integral and crucial component of our transformation programme.
This will ensure that you meet all of the criteria laid down in the new national assessment and accreditation systems that have been developed for social workers. We are working hard to ensure that our offer is the very best there is and that it will simultaneously help you meet the demands of the job, as well as exceeding our aspirations for Dudley’s Children’s Services. We want the best people to travel with us and to reap the rewards along the way.
To apply for these vacancies and for further information on Dudley Children's Social Care please go to click the apply button.