Overview
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible and creative working arrangements
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- CamWeb – our staff intranet helping keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
- We offer a generous mileage allowance
About the role
Are you an experienced Social Work Team Manager and have 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? Join us in our new Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) team!
You’ll create and embed the UASC team, 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. Recognising 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.
Based in Scott House, Huntingdon, no two days are the same and we have fantastic ambitions for this new team within the Children in Care service.
Now is a great time to join Cambridgeshire County Council as we develop a new model of practice focussed on relationships and being aspirational for children in our care in terms of their homes, relationships with their families and educational opportunities. We commit to embedding the Council ambitions for a greener, fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire.
If this sounds like a role that suits your skill set, we would love to hear from you! For more information, please contact Catherine Isaacs on catherine.isaacs@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or Reema Pate-Lynn on reema.pate-lynn@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
We expect interviews to be held at New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, week commencing the 3rd of June.
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.
About you
We’re looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot 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
We would welcome applications from a diverse range of workers who are willing to work flexibly to enhance our existing workforce.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
About us
Cambridgeshire 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.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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
