Practice Manager Stepping Stones, Cared for Children s Team Grade: 5A, 52,805- 54,543 Working hours: 36 hours perweek Contract type: Permanent Closing date: 16th February 2025 An excellent opportunity has arisen to appoint a Practice Manager within our Cared for Children s Team. The post holder will have at least 5 years post qualifying Social Work experience, be able to display and promote Salford s behaviours and values, whilst demonstrating enthusiasm and passion for protecting children and young people across the city. Stepping Stones Cared for Children s team The service is made up of 3 teams which will soon be 4, each with their own Practice Manager, Advanced Social Worker and five/six Social Workers. There are opportunities to work with our cared for children in various settings such as residential, foster care, with connected persons and at home with parents. Children s care plans can vary from adoption, Special Guardianship, long term fostering, to name a few. You will be responsible for managing the care plans for our children and young people, in partnership with families and partner agencies to achieve better outcomes. Workers in this department seize the opportunity to support families to make progress so risks are reduced for children and young people. Salford has a wide variety of support services to assist with this and prides itself on positive multi-agency working and approaches, through use of the Family Partnership model and tools to engage families and understand their agendas, or through more formal processes via the care planning and/or Legal Gateway mechanism. Our social work teams are supported by a small team of social work support officers co-located with the social work teams, dedicated administration support alongside minute taking pools to help to reduce the time spent on administrative tasks and close working relationships with our integrated family time service. The service also consists of champions and specialists to include Domestic Abuse, adoption, missing from home, with opportunities for all social workers to train and develop to become a Champion in an area of particular interest to them. In Salford, we are interested in you as a person and the practitioner you are or who you aspire to be. Your role will include: Oversight and management of the day to day delivery of all aspects of the Social Work team. Your role will have a focus on the quality and improvement of social work and service deliver You will ensure the service is facilitating effective participation of children, young people and families and that their lived experiences are known, understood and inform plans. You will be responsible for ensuring documentation, record keeping, accounting and communication is maintained, and effective information strategies and systems are in place to enable appropriate sharing of data and information. Including responding to complaints. You will ensure the regular and effective analysis, monitoring, measurement and maintaining of the performance of the team to ensure impact on outcomes for children and families is understood. You will be accountable to the Service Manager for staff supervision, care and development of the team. If you are interested in knowing more about the role of the practice manager or our offer to you please contact Laura.Murfinsalford.gov.uk or Keeley.Mcilvaneysalford.gov.uk Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants Want to know more about Salford? 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