Salary range: Grade 16 (£62,574 - £64,839 p.a.)
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon
The Team Manager will take operational responsibility for a team of social workers delivering Council’s statutory responsibilities for children in respect of:
The assessment and care planning of children in need, including those in need of protection and subject to legal proceedings
Direct work with children and families to achieve desired safety and well-being outcomes.
Promoting the achievement of permanence by looked after children and care leavers through assessment and care / permanence planning up to the second statutory review.
The Team Manager will take operational responsibility for a team of Social Workers in respect of:
Qualified and registered Social Worker who is Social Work England registered
Able to lead improvement in social work practice at an operational level through effective performance management
Evidence of leading and managing operational change effectively.
Able to lead and manage in an operational area dealing with high risk and high complexity in a way that delivers good safeguarding and well-being outcomes for children and families.
Able to apply and use effectively at operational level outcomes-based quality assurance frameworks.
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The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services
Key business plan outcomes:
Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
We provide a large number of services for local people, businesses and visitors to the borough, including services for children and adults, and environmental, cultural, sports, housing, planning and benefits services.
The borough is split into 24 electoral wards, and local elections are held every four years.
With a workforce of approximately 3,300 staff, including teachers in schools, Croydon Council is the largest employer in the borough. Spending over £900 million per year, the council makes a significant contribution to the local economy.
The council comprises three main political functions, the Executive (Leader and Cabinet), Committees, and Scrutiny.
The Leader and Cabinet are responsible and accountable for shaping policies and plans and recommending them to the council for approval. Cabinet also gives direction to departmental directors on the way services are managed and the budgets allocated to them.
Six non-executive committees take decisions relating to planning, licensing, standards of behaviour and conduct for members and officers, staffing issues, tenders, property transactions, liaison with local utility companies and internal audit.
Scrutiny holds the council executive functions to account. Examining aspects of council performance, the Overview and Scrutiny Committee also increasingly involves other local agencies which contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the local population.
