Salary: Band 12, £50,787 to £54,999 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week)
Closing date: Sunday 1 December 2024, 23:59
Interview date: Thursday 12 December 2024
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The Service:
Children's Social Care provides social work interventions to children in need (including children with disabilities and those subject to protection plans) and children looked after and care leavers. It is the responsibility of Children's Social Care to offer a range of options for children who need placements outside their families, including fostering and residential care alongside adoption, special guardianship, and kinship arrangements.
Your New Role:
You will have responsibility for managing the work related to finding homes for children which provide warm, kind, and safe care, where they feel loved and can flourish. You will manage a team, offering scrutiny and challenge to promote a creative and dynamic team, committed to ever improving outcomes.
What you'll need to succeed:
You have a recognised professional qualification in social work (Social Work Diploma/Degree/MSc or equivalent) and be registered with Social Work England. You are curious, creative, and solution-focused, and passionate about making a difference for young people. You have experience of managing staff or students and can support staff to grow and learn through reflective supervision.
What you'll get in return:
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
* Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
* A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
* Flexible working options including hybrid working with a minimum of three days office based per week pro rata, giving you the flexibility to work up to two days at home every week.
* Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
* Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme.
* Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme.
* Discounts on a wide range of goods and services.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Mark Jowett, Head of Service: Children We Care For, mark.jowett@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, 023 92 437 593
Application process:
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Please submit both a CV and a cover letter/personal statement. Remember to demonstrate in your cover letter/personal statement why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' section of the full Job Profile.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
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