Team Manager Children Looked After

The job itself

East Riding County Council are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Team Manager to join our Children Looked After team.

Our Team Managers have a key role in supporting the Area Manager in the continuous development of the service and may be given responsibility for specialist service areas and the delivery of key service targets and objectives.

Experience of managing and supervising social workers would be highly desirable although applications would be welcomed from experienced senior practitioners who are interested in career progression. We are hugely ambitious for the future and would be particularly interested in applicants who are enthusiastic about developing our Children Looked After teams to ensure we continue to deliver best practice.

To apply for this post, you must have a relevant social work qualification, such as Degree in Social Work, DipSW, CQSW, CSS or equivalent, and current Social Work England registration. A relevant management qualification or a commitment to work towards one is essential.

If you are interested in this post and would like some further information before applying, please email steve.breakell@eastriding.gov.uk with your preferred contact number and Steve will get back to you.

We are strongly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure and a range of other recruitment checks.

Our model

‘You can, I can, We can’

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families, and communities.

Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

We are a small team and positive relationships are valued. You will also be working with agencies across the East Riding of Yorkshire footprint so it is essential that the post holder is able to work effectively with others with a flexible and adaptable approach in a relational based approach – always demonstrating their commitment to working to the highest possible standards whilst remaining at all times child centred.

If you are meet all of these qualities, have the right value base, and are an innovative practitioner, then what are you waiting for? We are hugely ambitious for the future and have a real desire to provide a service to foster families and fostered children that is second to now! Apply now and make a difference!