Team Leader - Blaby Oadby Wigston
| Posting date: | 14 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 April 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE9 3BN |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4868 |
Summary
Children and Families Department
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Huncote Family Hub, Pavillion Centre, Sports Field Lane, Huncote, Leicester LE9 3BN/Bassett Street, Wigston, Leicestershire LE18
Worker Category: Field Based Worker
Salary: £42,498 -£46,344 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent,
Closing Date: 25h March 2025
Interview Date(s): 10th April 2025 at Huncote Family Hub
About the Role
We are looking for a Team Leader within our Blaby, Oadby & Wigston Target Family Help Service. You will work alongside another two Team Leaders within our locality and have responsibility for a multi-disciplinary team, these will be Family Wellbeing workers, Keyworkers and our SEND Family Support Workers. Together they offer brief and intensive one to one work in the home\schools\family hubs, support families through the Short Breaks Assessment and review process, deliver a group work programme and alongside our social work colleagues support families through their Child in Need Plan.
An enhanced DBS check 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:
- Have an excellent understanding of the needs of children, young people and families at a locality level and supporting your team to responding to these in innovative ways, using a partnership approach
- As a leadership team, lead on the management of referrals, ensuring they are prioritised and appropriately allocated according to need, and that children, young people and families are offered the right service at the right time, with measurable outcomes
- To manage the operational demand upon the Service by identifying and engaging the most vulnerable children and families in the locality at an early stage to improve outcomes and promote resilience within families
- To ensure that the voices of children, young people and their families are heard and are used help to shape service delivery
- To support staff to maintain high quality case recording, undertake assessments and reviews in a timely manner, and maintain all paperwork relating to families so that records are up-to-date and concise
- To create and maintain effective working relationships with key partners to support co-ordinated delivery of services for families and children at risk of poor outcomes
- To ensure robust and consistent application of thresholds. This would include escalating to social care as and when appropriate through discussion based on accurate presentation of facts and thorough analysis of the information available
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:
Lou Pettitt - Team and Partnership Manager (Localities)
Telephone: 0116 3057879
Email: louise.pettitt@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.
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