Are you a passionate, qualified Social Worker with a drive to make a real impact in children's lives? Pembrokeshire County Council is seeking a dynamic Assistant Team Manager to join our Family Placement Team - a collaborative and forward-thinking Children's Services team dedicated to safeguarding and supporting families across Pembrokeshire.
As the Assistant Team Manager, you'll:
- Champion the development of services that promote stability and support for children unable to live with birth families.
- Oversee the assessment and ongoing support of mainstream and kinship foster carers. Supported lodgings providers and step parent adoptions.
- Lead service improvements including training, support groups, and access to resources.
- Supervise social workers, student social workers and support workers ensuring high standards of professional development.
- Represent the Family Placement Team at child protection conferences, legal planning meetings and court proceedings.
- This post also includes supervisory responsibility, involvement in foster panel management, and preparation for CSSIW inspections.
As the successful candidate, you will hold relevant qualifications, demonstrate your knowledge of childcare and fostering legislation and have proven experience of working within the Family Placement arena. You will also bring project management experience and an ability to work with flexibility while under pressure.
IT and communication skills and a valid UK driving licence are essential.
Joining our team in Pembrokeshire will provide many opportunities for you to bring new ideas, develop professionally, and to contribute directly to the service to promote a culture of continuous improvement, reflection and learning.
With its breath-taking scenery, coastal lifestyle and a range of leisure activities, Pembrokeshire has a lot to offer; and so do we. As well as a supportive management team, the following is just a taster of the range of benefits of joining the PCC team:
- Generous Annual Leave of up to 31 days
- Membership of the Local Government 'career average' defined benefit pension scheme
- Flexible and agile working options
- A wide range of resources to support your health and wellbeing, including a professional in-house occupational health service and access to counselling services
- Generous occupational maternity and paternity pay plan, on top of statutory benefits
- Access to employee discounts on a range of products, services and attractions including leisure centres
- Salary sacrifice car and cycle schemes
- Generous relocation package up to GBP 8,000 - which could include for example rent in lieu of a planned house purchase, removal and storage fees and legal/mortgage arrangement fees for house purchase
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Professional Registration: Successful applicants will be required to be registered as a social worker with Social Care Wales prior to taking up their post and to be able to provide evidence of this.
Please refer to the job description above for more details on this vacancy and the person specification.Employment ChecksThis post is subject to a DBS disclosure check.
Where it is appropriate for your role and responsibility, the personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.
Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy.
Please note that at this point, Pembrokeshire County Council is not accepting applicants who require a Skilled Worker visa as a prerequisite to a right to work in the UK. Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy. Safeguarding Safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk is a high priority for Pembrokeshire County Council. We aim to support vulnerable children and adults at risk to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We are committed to ensuring their safety and will take action to safeguard their well-being. The Council's Corporate Safeguarding Policy provides a framework for every member of staff and Service within the Council, setting out responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk as well as the methods by which the Council will be assured that it is fulfilling its duties.
This policy applies to all Council employees and workforce, councillors, volunteers and also service providers that are commissioned by the Council. Safeguarding is everyone's business whether they work for, or on behalf of, the Council.
Support & Additional Info - Please contact the HR Systems Team as early as possible if you're unable to apply online by emailing hrsystemsteam@pembrokeshire.gov.uk .
- Please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries relating to this vacancy by emailing Recruit@pembrokeshire.gov.uk .
- Local Government Employees on National Joint Council (NJC) terms are subject to national pay bargaining; all salaries currently stated in our adverts are as 01/04/2023.
- Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; therefore prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the person specification and are registered on our redeployment pool.
Welsh language skills are desirable. Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.
