Are you a confident, compassionate leader ready to lead a team making a meaningful difference in the lives of children and families? Join us as Team Manager for the Childcare Management Team 2, where your leadership will shape services that protect and support vulnerable children.
As Team Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of high-quality care and support plans for children in need, those on the Child Protection Register, children and young people looked after, and cases under the Public Law Outline. You will also lead preparations for adoption, ensuring children receive the support and security they need.
Your role will include:
- Leading a team of social care professionals and support staff to deliver excellent outcomes for children and families.
- Ensuring all practice aligns with current legislation, the Corporate Business Plan, and service priorities.
- Managing caseloads and the effective provision of support plans across the team.
- Overseeing budget management and resource allocation to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
- Fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and reflective supervision.
We're looking for a strategic and emotionally intelligent leader who:
- Has significant experience in child protection and statutory children's services.
- Demonstrates strong knowledge of relevant legislation, public law, and social work best practices.
- Can confidently lead, inspire, and support a multidisciplinary team.
- Has excellent communication, problem-solving, and budget management skills.
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 - starting at 26 days and rising to 31 after 5 years service
- 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
- 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.
Please refer to the job description above for more details on this vacancy and the person specification. Employment Checks 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. This 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.
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.
