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Job Description
| Salary £49,764 - £53,887 per annum | Full time | Permanent | 37 hours per week | Fylde & Wyre |
International Sponsorship - this role is not open to international sponsorship.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be a Team Manager in our Fylde & Wyre Family Safeguarding Team.
Family Safeguarding is a strengths-based model of social work implemented in Lancashire as part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children Innovation Programme, with support from Hertfordshire. We seek to keep children at home with their families where it is safe to do so. The work covers children in need, child protection, pre-proceedings, Court work, and adoption. We are looking for someone who is experienced and confident in managing in these areas.
You must be strengths-based and able to support your team as we move to this approach being business as usual.
It's All about You:
* You're passionate about making a difference to children, young people, and families. We're after caring, passionate, and dedicated leaders with a great track record who want to make a difference to the families we work with.
* You want flexibility and trust from your organisation. We have high expectations, and delivering successful outcomes is more important to us than watching the clock, so you can work from home whenever possible and flex your job/hours/location around your life.
* You want to challenge and develop your team and yourself. We're looking for someone to drive and deliver the changes that we're making while supporting a team of equally dedicated professionals.
It's about the Role:
Location: Fleetwood
Role: Family Safeguarding
Development: succession planning, professional and academic qualifications, secondments, supportive reflection, opportunities for personal growth & development, multidisciplinary initiatives, mentoring, and the opportunity to make a difference.
Inclusivity: We embrace diversity and the richness it brings, including personal and family requirements; feel supported whenever you need.
It's about Us:
Our Children's Services have transformed! Our Family Safeguarding Teams are now multidisciplinary teams, including domestic abuse officers and practitioners, substances misuse workers, mental health practitioners, and clinical psychologists. Our teams are working collaboratively with families, using strengths-based approaches and motivational interviewing to make a difference.
We offer a comprehensive induction, great succession plans for our team, supportive work-life balance including working from home, flexible working, & tangible wellbeing initiatives plus regular supervision and support available whenever you need it.
Our aim is to transition from
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