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Job Description
CF Children, Education and Justice Services
Team Manager
Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre
Salary: £62,685 – £74,858
Hours: 36 per week
We believe that every child and young person deserves the best possible start in life. Our aim is for Edinburgh’s children to be safe, healthy, nurtured, educated, active and respected. Our children’s practice teams are locality based and are at the forefront of providing services to help children, young people and their families deal with difficult situations at various stages in their lives, whether in need of protection, cared for at home or away from home or at risk of becoming looked after. We are committed to the Promise and Edinburgh’s Promise is supported by a plan which is underpinned by 5 fundamentals – what matters to children and families, listening, poverty, children’s rights and language.
Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility are the foundation for driving positive change in our workplace and support our way of working. We have a team manager vacancy within one of our children’s practice teams. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a leadership team committed to supporting children, young people and families and working together to improve outcomes. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a busy social work team which involves management of a team of social work assistants, social workers, senior practitioners and team leaders.
This challenging but rewarding role and requires a commitment to driving forward changes in practice to support the best outcomes for our children, young people and families which are evidence based. There will be a requirement for operational oversight and development of strategic plans to support improvement. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Service – Safeguarding Children’s Practice Teams.
Applicants must hold a Social Work qualification recognised by the SSSC. This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children and/or Protected Adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by the City of Edinburgh Council.
We are committed to creating a workplace culture where all colleagues feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation. Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range. Please refer to the job description and person specification for further information. If you have a question check our website, or if you would like to have an informal discussion about the post, please email [email protected].
Children’s Services is in the engagement stages of a service review, applicants should note that structures and posts will be subject to change as part of the service review.
Requirements
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
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