Employer:Surrey County Council
Reference:045118/NP/6855
Salary:£35,634 - £40,281 (plus £1,500 per annum retention supplement)
Hours:36 hours per week
Working pattern:Full Time, Permanent position
Location:Reigate and Leatherhead
Closing date:15/01/2009 23:00 PM
Interested in developing yourself and supporting others in their development? This busy and varied role as an Assistant Team Manager could be your first step into management in our Children, Schools and Families Directorate, which provides a holistic, co-ordinated service responsive to the needs of children and their families. These posts are based within our locality teams that work with children in the local community and deal with children in need, core assessments and children with child protection plans.
Surrey is committed to the aim of progressively shifting the balance of our work to prevention through early identification and intervention. Assistant Team Managers are key to this, helping the team manager oversee the running of frontline operational social care teams, you’ll ensure that we provide effective services to all our service users, as well as managing caseloads and risk appropriately and being involved in the longer-term planning of services.
We’ll count on you to provide professional guidance, advice and support to less experienced staff, helping them develop and ensuring that best professional practice and standards are maintained within the team and across the Service.
The management teams are committed to ongoing improvement through professional development and performance management across all key areas of service delivery with a keen focus on process improvement to ensure effective use of resources and enhance team responsiveness. Our teams have forward-thinking business plans, which promote equality and diversity, performance management and the continued development of integrated working.
A GSCC registered, professionally qualified social worker with significant experience of child protection and risk management and ideally with some supervisory experience, you’ll be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of undertaking assessments and care planning, together with the necessary IT and time management skills to enable you to work effectively and efficiently in these busy roles.
We currently have vacancies for Assistant Team Managers in the following
teams:
Reigate and Banstead Locality Team
Tandridge Locality Team
For an informal chat about either of these posts, please contact:
Elmbridge Locality team, Team Manager, Julian Gordon-Walker on 01372 833 590 Tandridge Locality team, Team Manager, Shelagh Green on 01737 737 712
Reigate and Banstead Locality team, Team Manager, Russell Walters on 01737 737 256
An enhanced Criminal Records Bureau disclosure and POCA check will be required for this role.
Surrey County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Surrey County Council particularly welcomes applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
