Social Work Team Manager
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Elite Care Recruitment
Salary: £58,475 – £64,193 per year
Children’s Peripatetic Team Manager – Social Work
Northampton
£48,729 to £53,494
I am looking for talented, experienced Team Leader to manage a new Peripatetic team within the Northamptonshire Children’s Trust. This team will be working across all social work teams and services, providing critical cover and helping to ease the pressure wherever needed.
In this post you will:
* Grow and lead a new peripatetic team
* Allocate and prioritise workloads
* Manage a team of Senior Social Workers, who will be working across multiple service areas
* Effectively ensure that the care of the child remains paramount
* Ensuring staff continuous development through quality supervision
* Have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved
For this post you will need:
* Experience as a Team Manager
* A recognised Social Work qualification and Social Work England Registration
* People management skills
* The ability to multi-task
* Budgetary control experience
On offer is:
* A highly competitive salary
* Flexible working practices, including occasional home working and flexi time
* The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
* Monthly high quality supervision
* 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
* Subsidised pension scheme
* Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
* Employee discount schemes
* Up to £8,000 relocation allowance
* Signs of Safety training
* An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities
* Subsidised local parking
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