Job number
LBC03519
Contract Type
Permanent
Posting End Date
20 January 2025
Job Area
Children's Social Care
About the job
Salary: £51,802 - £54,924 a year plus £5,000 market supplement and £3,203 car benefit allowance a year
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
We put children, young people and their families at the heart of everything we do. Our Children Looked After team work hard to enhance outcomes for CLA and care leavers through the delivery of a reshaped service, which incorporates the views of young people themselves.
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Team Manager to lead and manage a skilled team of ASYEs, Social Workers, and Senior Practitioners. Your role will focus on enabling the best possible outcomes for children and young people by:
* Supporting them to remain safely in their home or community environment, where possible.
* Ensuring they achieve positive outcomes through effective social work intervention.
* Safeguarding children and young people via statutory routes, including Care Proceedings and alternative permanent care, where necessary.
* Delivering services with measurable benefits to service users, grounded in best professional practice and standards.
This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact, leading a team dedicated to improving the lives of children and families.
Please note this role does not attract sponsorship.
About you
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
* Extensive Social Care Experience: Particularly within Looked After Children and safeguarding children.
* Complex Decision-Making Skills: Proven ability to handle child protection and statutory casework, monitor quality assurance, and evaluate outcomes.
* Leadership and Coaching Expertise: Experience advising, coaching, and supervising staff to achieve their best.
* Management Skills: Experience in staff management, supervision, and budgetary control.
* Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration: Ability to lead and chair meetings, influencing service users and professionals across various levels.
* Professional Judgement: Capability to make sound decisions, including on high-risk matters affecting children, families, and carers.
* Legislative Knowledge: In-depth understanding of relevant laws, national guidance, and best practices, including statutory responsibilities and performance indicators for Children and Family Services.
If you are a strategic thinker, passionate about delivering exceptional care and support for children and young people, we’d love to hear from you!
Join us and lead with purpose to create brighter futures.
About us
Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision – that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty – is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.
The people of Luton depend heavily on this council – and that means our workforce! Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?
Application process
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
Additional information
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:
* From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade.
* Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave.
* Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area.
* Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 percent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant.
* Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility).
* Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home.
* Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns.
* Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways.
* Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons.
* Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel.
* Friday Funday Socials: One Friday every 2 months where we encourage our staff to get together to socialise after work.
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