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Court Progression Manager
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,105 to £59,694 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 29 days annual leave, increasing to 34 days annual leave after 5 years' service. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 May 2025 |
| Location: | Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | North Somerset Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SCHA0757 |
Summary
The Court Progression Manager will work with Team Managers and Social Workers, the Local Authority’s legal department, and with agencies across the Family Justice System. The Court Progression Manager will drive and deliver improvement through tracking and quality assuring, to ensure timely progression of public and private law activity to secure permanence for children at the earliest opportunity. The role will also drive whole system effectiveness, and respond and adapt to the support needs of the system for development, research and best practice knowledge.
You will have extensive social work experience and a good understanding of the Public Law Outline and relevant legislation in respect of children’s welfare and safeguarding. You will be confident in driving high performance, and be able to build and maintain relationships across the system to support social work and legal colleagues with effective practice, offering quality assurance and training to ensure that this is continually improving.
You will have strong proven social work experience and understanding in all court pre-proceedings, legal planning and processes and frameworks, as well as all current legislation in respect of children’s welfare and safeguarding, including pre-proceedings and care proceedings. You will be confident in ensuring high performance, supporting all social work and legal teams with effective quality assurance and training to ensure consistent best practice.
A key pre-requisite for this role is the ability to be relational in your approach to influence and improve practice. Your skills to support others to ensure their development in their practice is informed by the latest research and caselaw is imperative, your ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships, particularly with our partnerships across the family justice system as well as judiciary to ensure effective communication and working together.
A key pre-requisite for this role is the ability to support and challenge, to influence and improve practice. Your skills to support others to ensure their development in their practice, keeping abreast of new research and caselaw to inform your knowledge is imperative; you will support partnership working across the local family justice system, including CAFCASS and the judiciary, to ensure effective communication and working together.
Applications close on Wednesday 21 May 2025 and shortlisted applicants will be contacted to arrange interview dates promptly. Interview dates are to be confirmed.
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Shelley Caldwell, Head of Family Support & Safeguarding at shelley.caldwell@n-somerset.gov.uk or call on 07824085762
You will have extensive social work experience and a good understanding of the Public Law Outline and relevant legislation in respect of children’s welfare and safeguarding. You will be confident in driving high performance, and be able to build and maintain relationships across the system to support social work and legal colleagues with effective practice, offering quality assurance and training to ensure that this is continually improving.
You will have strong proven social work experience and understanding in all court pre-proceedings, legal planning and processes and frameworks, as well as all current legislation in respect of children’s welfare and safeguarding, including pre-proceedings and care proceedings. You will be confident in ensuring high performance, supporting all social work and legal teams with effective quality assurance and training to ensure consistent best practice.
A key pre-requisite for this role is the ability to be relational in your approach to influence and improve practice. Your skills to support others to ensure their development in their practice is informed by the latest research and caselaw is imperative, your ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships, particularly with our partnerships across the family justice system as well as judiciary to ensure effective communication and working together.
A key pre-requisite for this role is the ability to support and challenge, to influence and improve practice. Your skills to support others to ensure their development in their practice, keeping abreast of new research and caselaw to inform your knowledge is imperative; you will support partnership working across the local family justice system, including CAFCASS and the judiciary, to ensure effective communication and working together.
Applications close on Wednesday 21 May 2025 and shortlisted applicants will be contacted to arrange interview dates promptly. Interview dates are to be confirmed.
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Shelley Caldwell, Head of Family Support & Safeguarding at shelley.caldwell@n-somerset.gov.uk or call on 07824085762
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