Team Manager Emerald

Team Manager Emerald
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Job Description

Salary: £56,993 - £59,242 per annum (inclusive of 15% market supplement)

Hours per week: 37 hours

Interview date: Friday 25 October 2024

Children in Care and Young People - Transforming Young Lives

Ready to take your Social Work management career to the next level? Join our team as a Team Manager in the specialist child exploitation Emerald team!

Rated ' Outstanding ' by Ofsted, the Emerald team is closely integrated with the Youth Justice Service and our Stronger Families team who deliver an edge of care offer. This gives staff full access to a range of resources including early support, youth work, mentoring, and health and well-being services. The team also leads on a devolved panel for the National Referral Mechanism scheme.

The post holder will line manage Assistant Team Managers and an ASYE Development Manager and will be responsible for the quality of practice, the deployment of resources and the delivery of outcomes in a high performing team.

You will also have the opportunity to work with our multi-agency partners to further develop our contextual safeguarding approach which includes our innovative risk outside the home (ROTH) child protection framework and is part of our ongoing partnership with Durham University's contextual safeguarding research team.

Alongside significant experience in a similar role, being a leader, and a social work qualification, you'll need substantial experience covering the full range of childcare work that includes children in need, child protection plans, and on occasions, intervention through the Public Law Outline. You will also understand the risks and concerns associated with exploitation, extra familial harm risks and children who go missing along with experience of staff supervision, performance setting and management oversight.

Why us?

Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That's why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right. Explore more benefits here!

This position comes with a 15% market supplement payment. All market supplement payments are subject to review on an annual basis.

Please download and read the role description and person specification carefully before you apply as well as Our Identity .

For more details, contact Andrew Griffiths, Service Manager Young People, at or call .

This role may be subject to certain successful security checks; please see the role description for more information.

We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. Read our statement of commitment to equality and inclusion .

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