Service Manager – Duty & Assessment Team

Global Healthcare Jobs have an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Service Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based in Northampton.

Team/Specialism: Duty and Assessment

Staff Benefits:

• The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rises with service) and the opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
• Subsidised pension scheme
• Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
• Employee discount schemes
• Lease car scheme
• An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities

Main duties:

• Our Service Duty and assessment is the single point of contact for all safeguarding concerns relating to children and young people
• Professionals from a range of services that have contact with children, young people, their families and carers, collaborate to ensure immediate and prompt responses; their combined knowledge and expertise keeping children and young people in Northamptonshire safe from harm
• With a rotating duty element, the team works at pace, completing robust short-term quality assessments of need, ensuring the right service provision is in place
• Skilled social workers in these teams are friendly and confident professionals, who are able to work collaboratively to very tight deadlines, and ensure the child’s voice is evident throughout
• There are 6 teams within DAAT, each team consists of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, who holds complex cases and supports 5 or 6 Social Workers / Senior Social Workers and a Newly Qualified Social Worker within their team
• We collaborate with other professionals to ensure immediate and prompt responses
• Their combined knowledge and expertise keep children and young people safe from harm

Requirements of the Service Manager:

• Degree or equivalent in social work
• Current Social Work England registration
• Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
• Understanding and ability in relation to effective management practices

Contact:

This Social Work Service Manager job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.