Team Leader
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Rhagfyr 2024 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Ionawr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | leicestershire, LE12 5BN |
| Cwmni: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 4386 |
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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Loughborough West Children and Family Centre, Regent Street, Loughborough, LE11 5BN
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker- office based minimum 2 days per week
Salary: £42.498 - £46.344 including Market Premium
Working Hours: 37 hours
Contract Type: Secondment until 30.06.2025
Closing Date: 10th January 2025
Interview Date(s): 17th January 2025 at - Loughborough West Children and Family Centre, Regent Street, Loughborough LE11 5BN
About the Role
Are you looking at developing your experience and furthering your career? We are looking for an experienced practitioner to take on a short-term role as Team Leader in Family help covering Charnwood locality 4 days per week and Hinckley locality once a week starting as soon as possible until the 30th of June 2025.
This role will manage a team of Keyworkers and Family wellbeing workers working both on Targeted early help cases and Children in need as well as having some oversight of group work and duty cover.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Significant experience of working within children and family services in a multi-agency environment
- Experience of supporting staff and teams to maintain, develop and improve outcomes for children, young people and families, ideally including case supervision and management oversight
- :Experience of working within an outcomes driven framework and working in an environment dealing with sensitive and confidential information
- Knowledge of the triggers and barriers faced by children and young people and methods of identifying and engaging early, those vulnerable to poor outcomes and Knowledge of child development and the needs of children and young people
- Demonstrate the ability to build powerful relationships across stakeholders, peers and partners creating open and transparent relationships based on trust and demonstrate the ability to lead and deliver sustainable, collective high performance, through inspirational leadership of people, setting clear priorities, and a strong approach
- Knowledge of relevant theoretical, practical, and procedural approaches that help improve the lives of children and young people, and demonstrate an improvement in their outcomes
- Demonstrate the need for voices of children, young people and their families to be heard and ensure this is used to help to shape service delivery and outcome planning for children and families.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Rachael Underwood - Team and Partnership Manager or Bekki Morrison Cooper -Team and Partnership Manager
Telephone:
Email: Rachael.Underwood@leics.gov.uk or Rebecca.Morrison-Cooper@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
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