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Team Manager - Safeguarding and Care Planning West Team

Focusing on the child, not fogetting you

Salary: Up to £59,545

In addition, you will receive £2,000 annual retention payment, £2,000 Golden Hello (welcome payment) and other excellent benefits including a lease car
Location: Bromley Civic Centre/flexible working

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-Time (36 hours)

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Looking for your next exciting adventure in social work? Look no further!

Bromley Children’s Social Care has recently been awarded an Ofsted rating of “outstanding”. You can view the latest report on: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/44/305

Bromley are seeking highly talented and ambitious registered Team Manager to join us on our journey to excellence.

The Safeguarding and Care Planning Service works in partnership with other agencies such as Police, Health and Education, and aims to ensure children grow up with the best life chances and receive safe and consistent care.

The team works on the premise that children should be raised within their families wherever possible providing it is safe for them. We recognise that unfortunately some families struggle to care and/or consistently meet the needs of their children and need our support. The team works with children who are subject to Child in Need Plans and Child Protection Plans and a smaller cohort of Children Looked After who are in care proceedings, striving to work with their family to create and promote the enabling environment where children can thrive and reach their full potential.

Our Safeguarding and Care Planning Service consists of 12 Safeguarding Teams; 6 in the East and 6 in the West of the borough. We also have a specialist Court Team within the Safeguarding Service that is managed within the East Service. You will be joining an ambitious service with strong leadership and clear lines of support.

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Patience Wilson via Patience.wilson@bromley.gov.uk

As part of the Bromley Promise there will be a dedicated two-week induction programme upon joining us. We are confident that with your support, we will continue to provide high quality social care services to our children in Bromley as set out in our improvement and transformation plan. In return we ask that you bring your passion, dedication and skills to us.

The Bromley Promise:

· Manageable caseloads for every Social Worker

· Dedicated time for reflective supervision

· Generous Annual Leave Entitlement including an additional three days

· Small Cluster teams with one team manager supervising five Social Workers

· Two-week protected induction programme

· Excellent Learning and development opportunities with bespoke training for every social worker

· Social Workers and team managers have easy and regular access to the leadership team

Applicants must hold a Degree in Social Work.

If you are interested in applying for this post, within the Personal Statement section of your application, please clearly outline what experience you have and how you would meet the Person Specification for the role. You may also wish to attach any supporting documents such as a CV.

To view our Roadmap to Excellence document please click here.

To view our Social Work Practice Standards please click here.

Benefits working for the London Borough of Bromley:

• Annual Retention Allowance
• Golden Hello
• Merited pay scheme
• 30 days Annual Leave
• Relocation Allowance (if applicable)
• The opportunity to participate in the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Excellent training and career development pathway
• Free Car Parking at Bromley Civic Centre
• The ability to claim mileage for business trips in line with HMRC guidance
• A range of salary sacrifice schemes, including for lease cars, technology equipment and for gym.
• Benefit scheme also includes a range of discounts at local retailers

We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners. We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment. We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.

Please note that we do not accept CV submissions from permanent recruitment agencies. If you are a candidate and would like to reach out to the Recruitment team about this role, please email: Recruitment.Team@bromley.gov.uk