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About the role
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust (NCT) is seeking a Social Work Team Manager for our Frontline Hubs, with current Social Work England registration, Practice Educator PEP 2 or equivalent and previous leadership experience in a similar role and/or knowledge and experience of the Frontline Programme.
The Frontline Hubs are part of the Children’s Support and Safeguarding Service, and you will provide leadership to the hubs, which consists of a Consultant Social Worker (CSW) and up to 5 Frontline Participants (Social Work Students) in each hub. The hubs are in the West and North of the County, and you will be expected to travel efficiently across the county to fulfil your responsibilities.
As a Team Manager you will be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads effectively to ensure the care of the child is paramount. Additionally, you will focus on developing your teams to deliver an efficient and effective service.
You will play a pivotal role in enhancing practices within the Children’s Support and Safeguarding Service and contribute to staff development by supporting your peers with tasks related to the Team Manager role.
This will require close collaboration with teams across the service, the Social Work Academy, and the Learning and Development team. Additionally, you will support your peers in the Children's Support and Safeguarding Service
The right candidate will have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved.
What will you be doing?
Northamptonshire’s Children’s Trust’s Frontline Hubs consist of Social Work participants who undertake a year-long placement within NCT. Following this placement, they progress into their ASYE year within the academy and designated safeguarding teams.
You will provide opportunities for students to learn and develop the skills needed to become qualified social workers. They will study while working within a social work team, combining theory with practical experience to develop essential skills for excellent social work. Applying both Systemic Approach and Signs of Safety, you will work closely with NCT’s Social Work Academy and the Learning and development team, and you will support your Hubs as they progress through their year in placement and into the Academy as ASYE’s.
The CSW’s case hold, and the participants are linked as co-workers, they complete work with children who are subject to child-in-need, children in need of protection, care experienced children and at times children subject to Public Law Outline/Initial Care Proceedings. They also support multi-agency practice in completing pre-birth and parenting assessments and work with adolescents focusing on contextualised safeguarding. As the Team Manager you will be supporting your CSW’s with the Practice Educator role to ensure the participants are adhering to the Frontline Programme and requirements.
Utilising a relationship-based approach, where the young person is at the heart of everything we do, the service will undertake assessments, both statutory and non-statutory, and will focus on intensive, direct work to meet complex needs and manage associated risks. Some packages of support will be led by social workers, others by lead professionals from across the service, including our Children and Families Support Services partners.
The service aims for young people to achieve positive outcomes by ensuring they are safe, adequately housed, and supported (preferably with their families). It also focuses on their physical and emotional health, and their success in education, training, or employment.
