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Job Title: Social Work Team Manager
Team: Family Safeguarding
Location: Bury Council
Start Date: Asap
Contract: On going
Hours: 37 – 4 days a week in the office
Rate: £46
Office Use: 0009 44B3 / 1
Bury Council are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, and dedicated Team Manager to join their Family Safeguarding Team.
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children and young people? Do you want to work using strength-based models of social work practice and motivational interviewing? If so they have an exciting opportunity at Bury for you to join their dedicated Family Safeguarding Team.
As the Team Manager you will lead a team comprising of an Advanced Social Work practitioner and 5 Social Workers. The team is also made up of a business support officer, domestic abuse officer, domestic abuse practitioner, mental health practitioner, drug and alcohol worker, family support worker and a clinical psychologist.
They are the first authority within the Greater Manchester area to implement and pioneer Herefordshire’s Family Safeguarding model. This is a fantastic opportunity to change the way they work with children and families in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children of Bury.
Within Family Safeguarding they use motivational interviewing and a multi-agency approach under the Family Safeguarding model, where Social Workers, Family Support Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Recovery Workers, Mental Health Practitioners, and Psychologists collaborate closely to address family issues efficiently, reducing the need for referrals to other agencies.
You will have oversight of children and young people who are subject child in need and child protection planning, who are subject to pre-proceedings and in care and private law proceedings.
You will have the opportunity to build trusting relationships with children and families. They know this supports positive and effective engagement which achieves better outcomes for children and prevents their needs from escalating.
To help us achieve our ambitions for children and families we are looking for dedicated, and compassionate Team Manager who is child focused and committed to relationship-based social work to join us. You will be a qualified Social Worker, registered with SW England.
They strive to provide a supportive and dynamic work environment for their employees with a strong focus on support, training and development and health and wellbeing.
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