Social Work Team Manager - Horsham, United Kingdom - West Sussex County Council

West Sussex County Council
West Sussex County Council
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Horsham, United Kingdom

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About Us
Here at West Sussex County Council, we are ambitious for our children and our workforce. We are committed to improving our services for the children and families in West Sussex we support. You will join us as at a key time on our improvement journey.


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About The Job

Salary:
£55,116 - £58,892 (pro-rata £33,069 - £35,335) (market supplements included)

Working Pattern:
Part-time, 22.2 hours per week


Location:
Horsham


Contract:
Fixed Term or Secondment until March 2024


We're looking for a Team Manager to manage the children seeking asylum work in the Children We Care For service.

This is an exciting time to be part of shaping and developing the service as it expands with this new role.


The Children's Asylum Team provides both a child protection duty response to Gatwick Airport and manages new arrivals of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the county.

As Team Manager you will lead, motivate, nurture, and manage a team (socialworkers and unqualified staff) supporting children and young people seeking asylum.

You will be responsible for ensuring the service provided is effective and delivering the required outcomes.

You will work with other agencies to ensure children and youngpeople are adequately protected in line with our policies, procedures and relevant legislation.


You will be able to work on your own initiative but also perform as part of a wider management team.

You will be able to build positive working relationships with children and young people, professionals, partner agencies and carers as well as respectfullychallenge when appropriate.

You will have an excellent understanding of the statutory requirements relating to looked after children and keeping children safe.


Key Skills:


  • Ability to make sound pragmatic problemsolving decisions, which will have a wider service The ability to provide comprehensive professional advice and support within the service specialism, including tackling difficult problems of a technical, professional,resource or people related nature.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence the actions of others and communicate information which may be complex and contentious. This will include the ability to develop effective longterm relationships both with otherteams across WSCC and external partners enabling the achievement of highquality outcomes.
  • Effective people and performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and motivate and inspire the team to deliver quality professional practice. You will use data to identify and address performance challenges, manage throughput of work,and manage team performance. The ability to use supervision, appraisal and data to have reflective and crucial conversations with staff to identify performance and improve practice.
  • Able to manage self, is selfaware and understands impact of work on self and others and responds constructively to situations. Understands the need for emotional intelligence/resilience, specifically in relation to risk, ensuring that there is a positivebalance between perceived risk and protection from harm where necessary. Ability to respond calmly and appropriately to situations where others are in a stressful or anxious situation.
  • Able to reflect on practice and learn from experience and feedback, taking responsibility for own performance and being proactive in relation to own work and professional development. Ability to challenge existing practices and identify innovative solutionswithin the required framework. Further to that the ability to interpret and manage political influences on social work practice and to work with peers and managers to address potential impacts.

Qualifications and experience:


  • A recognised Social Work qualification e.g. Degree in Social Work, DipSW, CQSW orequivalent as recognised by the relevant professional body.
  • A recognised post qualifying award in Social Work or demonstrable evidence of continuous professional development at a similar level.
  • Registration with the relevant professional registration body and maintaining registration with that body.
  • Demonstrable experience of delivering or coordinating a quality customer focused service to others.
  • Experience in dealing with significant issues, for example management of complex child protection matters, staff under performance, managing resources to address team performance priorities through allocation of limited resources.
  • Evidence of developing, empowering and leading teams to achieve performance improvements and service developments. Evidence of planning and management of resources and performance over the long term.
  • Experience of managing/leading staff.
  • Experience of managing a small budget and/or contributing to financially related decisions on larger spends, how costeffective decisions are made and operating within the financial constraints.
  • Experience of supporting initiatives in a political environment.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of how to improve practice and performance in a supportive, positive way.
  • Valid, full driving licence.
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