Team Manager

We are seeking to recruit a Team Manager to join the Newark Family Support and Safeguarding team (Formally Newark District Child Protection Team) to help us achieve our vision for all our children, young people and families in Nottinghamshire County Council.  As a registered social worker with Social Work England, you will have a minimum of 2 years' post qualifying experience working with children and families in the statutory sector. You will have the capacity and/or the experience of managing people effectively and the ability to lead a team to achieve positive outcomes and ensuring the children that we work with are supported and safeguarded. You will also be able to demonstrate a breadth of knowledge and experience and ideally have experience of working within the strengths-based practice framework.

As the Team Manager, you will have to lead, manage, and motivate experienced staff and newly qualified workers to ensure that all children's outcomes are improved and that they are safeguarded effectively, demonstrating your expert practice in complex situations when making decisions and managing higher levels of risk.  You will be motivated, committed, and passionate about making a difference to the lives of children, young people and families. You will be able to build effective working relationships, demonstrate strong analytical skills, supervise, and appraise your team and ensure all team members have the relevant skills and knowledge to work effectively and efficiently and a robust understanding of the care proceedings process. 

This is an exciting career opportunity for an aspiring/experienced team manager, to work within a front-line child protection team, whilst focusing on the delivery of outstanding services to ensure children and young people are afforded every opportunity to achieve their best possible outcomes. Nottinghamshire County Council are committed to developing and supporting their workforce and offer a wide range of good quality training and opportunities to develop management skills within the team manager role. In addition, social work practice is supported through social work support officers and social work assistants; alleviating administrative and support tasks for social workers which enables them to progress case work and focus on the social work role.

In addition to this, we offer:

• Regular and effective supervision
• Mobile working
• Good levels of business and admin support
• Internal transfer scheme between teams
• A comprehensive range of CPD options, including links to local Universities
• Practice Consultants based in every social work team
• Leadership Development Programmes
• Up to £5,000 relocation package
• Excellent employee benefits

This investment in our workforce means that we can provide a quality, consistent, and professional service to communities in Nottinghamshire, with good outcomes being achieved for our children and young people.

Additional information about Newark Family Support and Safeguarding Team

The Newark Team is currently part of a pilot a multi-Disciplinary team, this involves a Domestic Abuse worker, Adult Mental health worker and Drugs and Alcohol worker based within the service offering a multiagency approach to assessment and intervention. We also work closely with the Family Service and Children’s centres at the point of work coming into the team so that a plan can be developed with all agencies and work identified at the earliest opportunity. This is an exciting time within the service and you will be involved in this pilot and part of driving forward positive practice and new ways of working.