Assistant Team Manager - Assessment Team
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Berkshire, South East England |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 1 diwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Bracknell Forest Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | People/25/318904 |
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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Children's Social Care Assistant Team Manager or an experienced Advanced Practitioner with existing management and supervisory experience, to join our duty and assessment team.
To learn more about what it is like to work with us, take a look at our workforce video.
About you...
You will have significant post-qualifying experience in statutory work with children and families, which includes child protection and a strong understanding of assessment, planning and intervention to ensure the right plans are in place and needs lead services and interventions are provided for children and families.
You will be a natural leader with the ability to build effective relationships, demonstrate strong analytical skills, and work collaboratively as part of a management team.
You will deputise when required for the Team Manager and work closely alongside them to deliver our vision and strategic values. You will have direct responsibility for social workers, including newly qualified social workers, students and support staff. You will support the Team Manager to drive performance and will know what good practice looks like.
In Bracknell Forest we are committed to making sure that children receive the right support at the right time.
If you can demonstrate your own passion and drive to improving outcomes for children and to support families to stay together and would like to be part of a hard-working, supportive and friendly children’s management team, we look forward to receiving your application.
About the team…
We are Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding,’ with Ofsted recognising that at Bracknell Forest Council, “Children who need help and protection in Bracknell Forest receive a consistently high-quality service”.
Inspectors concluded that social workers and other frontline practitioners benefit from manageable caseloads, good training and powerful and highly reflective supervision that ensures children are at the heart of decision making.
Bracknell Forest Council have an embedded nationally recognised practice model – the ‘Family Safeguarding Model’. Our model and our work are dynamic and impactful.
The Assessment Team acts as the front door for Children’s Social Care and carries out assessment and short-term work. Working alongside and directly with children, young people, and their families. Our ‘front door’ colleagues know good beginnings and have a better chance of making good endings.
The team predominantly undertakes child in need assessments (Single Assessments) and child protection assessments (Section 47’s) using a range of child and adult tools to enhance our analyses, to measure change and to problem solve and design and plan short, medium and long-term interventions. The team is fast paced, the work is immensely rich and varies day to day.
We are a small, welcoming, and friendly local authority. We are proud of our connected and inclusive culture, with a strong focus on wellbeing, which provides our workforce with a strong sense of belonging.
Our leadership team is visible, available and approachable.
Everything we do in Children’s Social Care is about improving the life chances of Bracknell’s children, put simply, we change lives for the better.
You can read what our team have to say about working at Bracknell Forest via this link: Children's social care jobs | Bracknell Forest Council
Because we’re Bracknell Forest.
Key responsibilities…
To support the Team Manager with managing a team of staff, including recruitment/retention, induction, training and development, performance support and management, disciplinary/capability and succession planning.
Providing high quality, reflective supervision (in line with the supervision policy) including providing feedback and analysis of performance.
To lead on Strategy Discussions, Child in Need meetings, professional meetings and other forums, working together with partner agencies to conclude with safe and proportionate threshold decision and planning.
To promote listening to children and young people at every opportunity, ensuring their views are heard, recorded and acted upon in an appropriate and timely manner.
To actively engage with parents and carers so that their views contribute to service improvement. Including responding to complaints and feedback.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 12th August.
Our benefits…
28 days* annual leave increasing to 33 days* after 3 years’ continuous service.
The opportunity to buy up to 10 additional days* annual leave per year and sell 5 days.
Hybrid working opportunities to support your wellbeing and work-life balance.
Electric vehicle salary sacrifice for an electric car at a fixed monthly cost (subject to eligibility).
An inclusive and social working environment with a variety of staff networks.
Local government pension scheme.
Life insurance cover (linked to the pension scheme)
Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and fostering leave.
Recognition of continuous service attained within the NHS and UKHSA when calculating some benefits such as annual leave entitlements, occupational maternity/paternity leave, and more. (Terms and Conditions apply – please refer to candidate pack for more information.)
Career development through internal and external training opportunities.
A great office location next to travel links and Bracknell Forest’s thriving town centre.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing.
Sports and Social Club.
Staff dental and health plans.
Discounted leisure centre and gym membership.
Supermarket discount.
To learn more about what it is like to work with us, take a look at our workforce video.
About you...
You will have significant post-qualifying experience in statutory work with children and families, which includes child protection and a strong understanding of assessment, planning and intervention to ensure the right plans are in place and needs lead services and interventions are provided for children and families.
You will be a natural leader with the ability to build effective relationships, demonstrate strong analytical skills, and work collaboratively as part of a management team.
You will deputise when required for the Team Manager and work closely alongside them to deliver our vision and strategic values. You will have direct responsibility for social workers, including newly qualified social workers, students and support staff. You will support the Team Manager to drive performance and will know what good practice looks like.
In Bracknell Forest we are committed to making sure that children receive the right support at the right time.
If you can demonstrate your own passion and drive to improving outcomes for children and to support families to stay together and would like to be part of a hard-working, supportive and friendly children’s management team, we look forward to receiving your application.
About the team…
We are Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding,’ with Ofsted recognising that at Bracknell Forest Council, “Children who need help and protection in Bracknell Forest receive a consistently high-quality service”.
Inspectors concluded that social workers and other frontline practitioners benefit from manageable caseloads, good training and powerful and highly reflective supervision that ensures children are at the heart of decision making.
Bracknell Forest Council have an embedded nationally recognised practice model – the ‘Family Safeguarding Model’. Our model and our work are dynamic and impactful.
The Assessment Team acts as the front door for Children’s Social Care and carries out assessment and short-term work. Working alongside and directly with children, young people, and their families. Our ‘front door’ colleagues know good beginnings and have a better chance of making good endings.
The team predominantly undertakes child in need assessments (Single Assessments) and child protection assessments (Section 47’s) using a range of child and adult tools to enhance our analyses, to measure change and to problem solve and design and plan short, medium and long-term interventions. The team is fast paced, the work is immensely rich and varies day to day.
We are a small, welcoming, and friendly local authority. We are proud of our connected and inclusive culture, with a strong focus on wellbeing, which provides our workforce with a strong sense of belonging.
Our leadership team is visible, available and approachable.
Everything we do in Children’s Social Care is about improving the life chances of Bracknell’s children, put simply, we change lives for the better.
You can read what our team have to say about working at Bracknell Forest via this link: Children's social care jobs | Bracknell Forest Council
Because we’re Bracknell Forest.
Key responsibilities…
To support the Team Manager with managing a team of staff, including recruitment/retention, induction, training and development, performance support and management, disciplinary/capability and succession planning.
Providing high quality, reflective supervision (in line with the supervision policy) including providing feedback and analysis of performance.
To lead on Strategy Discussions, Child in Need meetings, professional meetings and other forums, working together with partner agencies to conclude with safe and proportionate threshold decision and planning.
To promote listening to children and young people at every opportunity, ensuring their views are heard, recorded and acted upon in an appropriate and timely manner.
To actively engage with parents and carers so that their views contribute to service improvement. Including responding to complaints and feedback.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 12th August.
Our benefits…
28 days* annual leave increasing to 33 days* after 3 years’ continuous service.
The opportunity to buy up to 10 additional days* annual leave per year and sell 5 days.
Hybrid working opportunities to support your wellbeing and work-life balance.
Electric vehicle salary sacrifice for an electric car at a fixed monthly cost (subject to eligibility).
An inclusive and social working environment with a variety of staff networks.
Local government pension scheme.
Life insurance cover (linked to the pension scheme)
Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and fostering leave.
Recognition of continuous service attained within the NHS and UKHSA when calculating some benefits such as annual leave entitlements, occupational maternity/paternity leave, and more. (Terms and Conditions apply – please refer to candidate pack for more information.)
Career development through internal and external training opportunities.
A great office location next to travel links and Bracknell Forest’s thriving town centre.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing.
Sports and Social Club.
Staff dental and health plans.
Discounted leisure centre and gym membership.
Supermarket discount.
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