Team Manager - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £50,985 i £54,421 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Scott House, Huntingdon, PE29 3AD |
| Cwmni: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | Ref/1660/7679 |
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Are you an experienced Social Work Team Manager with a passion for supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people, their needs, experiences, and their future? Are you enthusiastic and have the child’s voice at the heart of everything you do?
We are looking for a Team Manager to lead and support our Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) team! The role is hybrid with a mix of office (Scott House, Huntingdon) and home working. This job is only open to internal candidates.
The UASC team is made up of Social Workers and Personal Advisors, and lead on all aspects of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people’s experiences from the point that they come to Cambridgeshire. We recognise the trauma, challenges, and loss our children and young people have been through, whilst being able to undertake holistic assessments of their needs (including age assessments where necessary) and support them through the immigration system, whilst also being ambitious for their future.
As the Team Manager you’ll work alongside the Children in Care and Leaving Care teams as well as a range of other external partners including the Home Office, care providers, and health organisations. Experience of partnership working and networking is essential, as well as experience of delegating tasks and the ability to establish, lead, develop and motivate a team.
We pride ourselves on providing our Social Workers and alternatively qualified staff with a friendly, safe, and supportive environment to work in. As a Team Manager, you’ll be vital in providing this.
If this sounds like a role that suits your skill set, we would love to hear from you! For more information, please contact Service Manager, Nikki Hanks at nikki.hanks@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
- A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
- A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
- Access to our Cambridgeshire Academy for Reaching Excellence (CARE) who will support your development, enabling you to become the best practitioner you can be
For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.
What will you be doing?Your role will include allocating work, performance monitoring and supporting the development of the team. You’ll be able to think on your feet to respond to the needs of our unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people, ensuring the team can meet those needs effectively in a busy environment.
You will be responsible for maintaining and further developing a culture that focuses on the best possible outcomes for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people both in our care and when leaving our care, whilst recognising their individual needs.
About youWe're looking for a confident and dynamic individual who enjoys making a difference in their local community, is curious and spots things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.
You must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide, and out of county, independently
- Have strong leadership skills with proven experience of demonstrating resilience being able to thrive in a busy environment
- Be able to demonstrate an understanding of UASC legislation and processes
- Have knowledge of statutory requirements, safeguarding and local procedures
- Have had supervisory experience and be confident at managing risk
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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