Interim Team Manager - Disabled Children's Team - Leicestershire

Job Description

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

Our client, Leicestershire County Council, is seeking an agency Team Manager for its Disabled Children’s team.

This role will last 3 months initially, paid at £42 - £45 per hour.

Please let me know if you are interested? Or can you refer a friend for £300 if placed?

We have a highly rewarding opportunity for a full-time Social Work Team Manager position in our Disabled Children’s Service in Leicestershire   If you are passionate about enabling children with a disability to maximise their level of independence, wherever possible within a family context and if you are committed to joined up health, education, young adults disability and social care practice, then read on…    

The role will involve the following:

• The Disabled Children’s Service consists of two social work teams led by a strong and experienced service manager. 
• We are a Trauma Informed Service, responding to families who tell us how hard it is to navigate services and secure the help that they need.
• Signs of Safety is the expected practice methodology and having knowledge of this and an understanding is desirable. 
• Staff workloads are manageable, and these continue to improve.
• Managers and staff all have regular monthly supervision.
• You will be responsible for providing leadership and management oversight to your team of social workers and accountable for how work is delivered. 
• You will use performance data and audit to drive improvement and ensure that interventions are timely and consistently good quality.  
• We want you to feel you are part of a wider management team, and you are expected to attend regular wider management team meetings with the senior team and Assistant Director. 
• Hybrid working (2-3 days per week in the Coalville office)  

Requirements of the role:

• Qualified Social Worker
• Fully Social Work England registered
• 3 years post-qualified experience in employment of a local authority (DFE rules)
• You will be an energetic and enthusiastic social work manager who is able to share your enthusiasm and passion for practice with those you manage. 
• You will have extensive experience of working in children’s services and an in depth understanding of disability and the issues faced by disabled children and their families. 
• You will be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative and relationship-based social work and demonstrates your ability to lead and manage a skilled workforce. 
• You will have a strong and credible professional reputation. 
• You have retained a strong interest in research and the evidence base for practice and are confident about how this can be used in practice
• Ideally you will already be confident in the application of the Signs of Safety methodology but certainly in the value of relationship-based social work. 

Please contact me asap to discuss in more detail. We are offering £250 joining bonus for new starters with Reed. xwzovoh Alternatively, we are offering £300 if you refer a friend or colleague and they are placed successfully into this or any other QSW role.