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About Portsmouth City CouncilPortsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. <a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/our-values-and-behaviours/" target="_blank">Learn more about our values and behaviours</a>.Job introductionWe are looking for a Team Leader to join our Building Your Futures team to lead and support a dedicated pod of Social Worker's. This is a full time role based at the Civic Offices.Your new roleAs Team Leader, you’ll lead and support a pod of Social Workers, focusing on staff development through mentoring and reflective supervision. You’ll manage performance, data, and absence, while promoting creative, solution-focused approaches to meeting individual needs. The role involves ensuring children and young people are actively involved in their care plans, supporting the Going Home pathway, and monitoring plans for permanence and transitions to adulthood. You’ll also act as duty manager on a rota, chair meetings, quality assure assessments, and represent the Building Your Futures service in working groups. Covering the Children Seeking Safety and Asylum team may be required when needed.Who is the person summary:The ideal candidate will hold a Diploma or Degree in Social Work, be registered with Social Work England, and have substantial post-qualifying experience, particularly in children and families social work. They will be passionate about supporting young people, demonstrate curiosity and creativity, and work collaboratively with stakeholders. Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills are essential, along with experience in staff supervision and development. The candidate should be confident in problem-solving, managing competing demands, and contributing to service improvement. A solid understanding of relevant legislation and guidance, including for care-experienced and asylum-seeking children, is required, alongside a commitment to continuous professional development and team support.For full details, please review 'who is the person' on the job profile below attached.Our recruitment processFull information about our recruitment process can be found on our support for applicants' page: <a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/support-for-applicants/" target="_blank">Support for applicants - Careers portal</a>Please ensure that you read the job profile for full details on the post.You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person'points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early if we have a successful applicant.We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at<a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-with-us/equity-diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank">Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal</a>Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact<a href="mailto:recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk" target="_blank">recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk</a>or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.If you would like to discuss this role in more detail with the hiring manager, please contact Vicky Laybourne, Service Leader - Building Your Futures:<a href="mailto:Vicky.laybourne@portsmouthcc.gov.uk" target="_blank">Vicky.laybourne@portsmouthcc.gov.uk</a>You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our career's portal homepage:<a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council</a>Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBS<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-privacy-policies" target="_blank">privacy notice</a>before submitting any information.You will need to explain any gaps in your career history within the last 5 years - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.Interview date: w/c 22nd September 2025

Team Leader - Building Your Futures

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The TeamThe Family Safeguarding Adult Team is integrated into Children's Social Care services, providing intervention with parents &amp; carers to actively support change, with the intention to help more children to live safely at home.Portsmouth City Council Children's Services is committed to promoting a multi - disciplinary, 'whole family' approach to safeguarding and reunification in Portsmouth. We want families to bring up their children to be safe and well, offering support to prevent the need for care, reduce the length of care when it is required, and to always strive for children to return home whenever it is safe and, in the child's best interest to do so.The RoleThe post holder will:Be a Family Safeguarding Recovery Worker co-located in one of the Family Safeguarding and Support Teams or the Building Your Futures Team. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of children’s Social Workers and other adult workers (including Mental Health and Domestic Abuse Workers) to safeguard parents/carers and their children.Be responsible for assessing, planning, and delivering interventions to parents/carers whose children are open to Children's Social Care and have vulnerabilities associated with substance and alcohol use. This will include working holistically, responding to a range of adult needs affecting parenting capacity. Be flexible and responsive to deploy specialist recovery based, behaviour change interventions. Be responsible for day-to-day service delivery, ensuring that people who experience issues with substance and alcohol use are provided with timely assessments and receive appropriate support to meet their needs as part of a multi-disciplinary plan. Deliver interventions using a restorative and strengths-based approach, including using Motivational Interviewing, in accordance with local and national guidelines.Co-create a schedule of working, including providing guidance to other professionals and working within a Team Around the Worker model, incorporating a strengths-based model of positive 'risk management'. Undertake specialist needs and risk assessments.Provide a responsive and effective service to individuals who may be in crisis or in need of safety planning.Work alongside colleagues and partners within the multi-disciplinary team and external organisations to develop and deliver interventions that aim to support children and young people to remain living at home, or to return home, when safe to do so. This includes contributing to the assessment, analysis and review of the impact of needs and harm for children as well as their parents / carers.Ensure a consistent and timely response to safeguarding in line with legislation, local and national procedures, maintaining a focus on both child and adult safeguarding.Maintain effective joint working with others, developing positive working relationships and clear communications, with Restorative and Motivational Interviewing at the heart of all interactions.Hybrid working attendance requirements - This role is office basedThe ideal candidateWill have/be Relevant vocational qualifications and/or be experienced in working with substance and alcohol misuse and be willing to undertake relevant training as necessary and appropriate.Experience, knowledge and understanding of adults and children's safeguarding procedures. Knowledge and experience of working with diverse communities; be adaptable, flexible, and inclusive to meet a range of parental needs, considering and addressing inequalities and social exclusion.Demonstrate your knowledge and experience working directly with families across the life span, including impact of adult needs on child development. Have the ability to build and maintain empowering strengths-based relationships with adults. Able to apply practice governance, as appropriate, when supporting families through highly emotive and challenging circumstances.An understanding of Motivational Interviewing and Restorative Practice and be willing to undertake further training and development. Have a respectful and inclusive approach to families, carers, colleagues, and other professionals.An up-to-date knowledge of research, relevant legislation, ethical issues, strategic frameworks, and current guidelines regarding the range of presenting needs relevant to adults who may be vulnerable and have complex needs. Have a good knowledge of Data Protection, information sharing and an understanding of confidentiality.Able to work within a busy environment, manage stress and respond to competing demands. Have good organisational skills and be able to manage a caseload whilst maintaining high standards of record keeping, including data entry and recording. Able to work autonomously, setting appropriate goals in accordance with professional, ethical guidelines and PCC policies. Confident to work in the community and use own initiative to make decisions in complex situations. Able to communicate effectively within a multi-professional team as well as the ability to work autonomously. Please ensure that you read the full job profile attached for the details and expectations of this role, paying particular attention the section 'Who is the person' as you will need to refer to this when completing your Personal statement on your application.Application processWe anonymise applications during application &amp; shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.As part of your application, we ask that you complete apersonal statement, this statement is crucial and is where you must demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the job against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience.We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at <a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-with-us/equity-diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank">Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal</a>. We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteriaYou will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it. About Portsmouth City CouncilWhat we can offer you:Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: <a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council</a> Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partnership safer recruitment procedures. Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact <a href="mailto:recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk" target="_blank">recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk</a>. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800

Family Safeguarding Recovery Worker

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The TeamThe Family Safeguarding Adult Team is integrated into Children's Social Care services, providing intervention with parents &amp; carers to actively support change, with the intention to help more children to live safely at home. Portsmouth City Council Children's Services is committed to promoting a multi - disciplinary, 'whole family' approach to safeguarding and reunification in Portsmouth.We want families to bring up their children to be safe and well, offering support to prevent the need for care, reduce the length of care when it is required, and to always strive for children to return home whenever it is safe and, in the child's best interest to do so.The RoleThe post holder will:Be a Family Safeguarding Domestic Abuse Worker co-located in one of the Family Safeguarding and Support Teams or the Building Your Futures Team. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team of children’s Social Workers and other adult workers (including Mental Health and Recovery Workers) to safeguard parents/carers and their children. Be responsible for assessing, planning, and delivering interventions to parents/carers whose children are open to Children's Social Care and have used or experienced unhealthy or abusive behaviours in their relationships.This will include working holistically, responding to a range of adult needs affecting parenting capacity. Be flexible and responsive to deploy specialist domestic abuse behaviour change interventions. Be responsible for day-to-day service delivery, ensuring that people who experience domestic abuse (including those who use unhealthy/abusive behaviours) are provided with timely assessments and receive appropriate support to meet their needs as part of a multi-disciplinary plan.Co-create a schedule of working, including providing guidance to other professionals and working within a Team Around the Worker model, incorporating a strengths-based model of positive 'risk management'. Undertake specialist needs and risk assessments.Provide a responsive and effective service to individuals who may be in crisis or in need of safety planning. Work alongside colleagues and partners within the multi-disciplinary team and external organisations to develop and deliver interventions that aim to support children and young people to remain living at home, or to return home, when safe to do so. This includes contributing to the assessment, analysis and review of the impact of needs and harm for children as well as their parents / carers.Ensure a consistent and timely response to safeguarding in line with legislation, local and nationalprocedures, maintaining a focus on both child and adult safeguarding.Deliver interventions using a restorative and strengths-based approach, including using Motivational Interviewing.Hybrid working attendance requirements - This role is office basedThe ideal candidateWill have/beHold an IDVA, or relevant vocational qualification, and / or be experienced in working with domestic abuse and willing to undertake relevant training as necessary and appropriate. Experience, knowledge and understanding of adults and children's safeguarding procedures. Have the ability to build and maintain empowering strengths-based relationships with adults. Knowledge and experience of working with diverse communities; be adaptable, flexible, and inclusive to meet a range of parental needs, considering and addressing inequalities and social exclusion.Demonstrate your knowledge and experience working directly with families across the life span, including impact of adult needs on child development. Have a respectful and inclusive approach to families, carers, colleagues, and other professionals.An up-to-date knowledge of research, relevant legislation, ethical issues, strategic frameworks, and current guidelines regarding the range of presenting needs relevant to domestic abuse. Have a good knowledge of Data Protection, information sharing and an understanding of confidentiality. Skills in the use of complex methods of assessment of need.Have skills in applying theory to practice and the ability to use a range of models in formulating and delivering support plans. Have confidence in delivering group work and/or teaching and developing practice.Able to communicate effectively within a multi-professional team as well as the ability to work autonomously. Be able to work within a busy environment, manage stress and respond to competing demands.Able to apply practice governance, as appropriate, when supporting families through highly emotive and challenging circumstances.Have an understanding of Motivational Interviewing and Restorative Practice and be willing to undertake further training and development. Please ensure that you read the full job profile attached for the details and expectations of this role, paying particular attention the section 'Who is the person' as you will need to refer to this when completing your Personal statement on your application.Application processWe anonymise applications during application &amp; shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.As part of your application, we ask that you complete a personal statement, this statement is crucial and is where you must demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the job against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience.We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at <a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-with-us/equity-diversity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank">Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal</a>.We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteriaYou will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it. About Portsmouth City CouncilWhat we can offer you:Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: <a href="https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council</a> Portsmouth City Council iscommittedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers tosharethiscommitment.DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partnership safer recruitment procedures. Should you require anysupportin completing the application form please contact <a href="mailto:recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk" target="_blank">recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk</a>. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800

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