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    Team Manager - Huntington, United Kingdom - Cambridge County Council

    Cambridge County Council
    Cambridge County Council Huntington, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Full time
    Description

    Are you an experienced Social Work Team Manager and have a passion for supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people, their needs, experiences, and their future? Are you enthusiastic and have the child's voice at the heart of everything you do? Join us in our new Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) team

    You'll create and embed the UASC team, made up of Social Workers and Personal Advisors, and lead on all aspects of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people's experiences from the point that they come to Cambridgeshire. Recognising the trauma, challenges, and loss our children and young people have been through, whilst being able to undertake holistic assessments of their needs (including age assessments where necessary) and support them through the immigration system, whilst also being ambitious for their future.

    As the Team Manager you'll work alongside the Children in Care and Leaving Care teams as well as a range of other external partners including the Home Office, care providers, and health organisations. Experience of partnership working and networking is essential, as well as experience of delegating tasks and the ability to establish, lead, develop and motivate a team.

    We pride ourselves on providing our Social Workers and alternatively qualified staff with a friendly, safe, and supportive environment to work in. As a Team Manager, you'll be vital in providing this.

    Based in Scott House, Huntingdon, no two days are the same and we have fantastic ambitions for this new team within the Children in Care service.

    Now is a great time to join Cambridgeshire County Council as we develop a new model of practice focussed on relationships and being aspirational for children in our care in terms of their homes, relationships with their families and educational opportunities. We commit to embedding the Council ambitions for a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.

    If this sounds like a role that suits your skill set, we would love to hear from you For more information, please contact Catherine Isaacs on or Reema Pate-Lynn on

    We expect interviews to be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, week commencing the 3rd of June.

    Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

    Our benefits

    We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

    • Flexible and creative working arrangements
    • Flexible Bank Holidays
    • A comprehensive wellbeing package
    • Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
    • A comprehensive pension scheme
    • IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
    • CamWeb - our staff intranet helping keep you informed
    • An employee recognition scheme
    • We offer a generous mileage allowance
    What will you be doing?

    Your role will include allocating work, performance monitoring and supporting the development of the team. You'll be able to think on your feet in terms of the needs of our unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people, and how the team can best meet their needs in this busy environment.

    As this is a new team, you will be responsible for establishing and embedding this team, including creating a culture that focuses on the best possible outcomes for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people both in our care and when leaving our care, whilst recognising their individual needs.

    About you

    We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

    You must:

    • Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
    • Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide, and out of county, independently
    • Have strong leadership skills with proven experience of demonstrating resilience being able to thrive in a busy environment
    • Be able to demonstrate an understanding of UASC legislation and processes
    • Have knowledge of statutory requirements, safeguarding and local procedures
    • Have had supervisory experience and be confident at managing risk

    We would welcome applications from a diverse range of workers who are willing to work flexibly to enhance our existing workforce.

    For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

    About us

    We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

    Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

    We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

    Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.


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