About the Role
Assistant Team Manager - City Children\'s Assessment Service
Oxfordshire County Council
This role focuses on line managing Social Workers (including Newly Qualified Social Workers, Senior Practitioners) and Family Help Practitioners, with supervisory responsibility for some practitioners and oversight of Child & Family Assessments, Strategy Discussions, and Section 47 Investigations for children newly referred or not currently open to a statutory social work team. The post has lead responsibility for ensuring the duty and assessment function in the team is managed safely and delivers outcomes effectively and in a timely way. The role has no direct budgetary responsibility. The position may require flexibility to meet urgent priorities and occasional work outside normal office hours.
The post is based in the City of Oxford and involves collaboration with Front Door services and other teams as needed.
About You
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children, young people, and families in need of help and protection? This is an exciting Assistant Management opportunity within the Children\'s Assessment Service. You should be free-thinking, brave, supportive, and energized by finding better ways to achieve outcomes. You should embody our values: always learning, kind and caring, equality and integrity, taking responsibility, and daring to do things differently.
Fundamentally, you should be committed to delivering stand-out public services for residents of Oxfordshire.
To Apply / Requirements
* Social Work Qualification and registration with Social Work England
* Working knowledge of the Family Safeguarding Model and Motivational Interviewing
* Considerable direct experience of frontline safeguarding social work, assessment at pace, and developing safe plans and interventions
* Direct experience supervising student social workers, family support staff, and/or social workers
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Government Administration
* Hospitals and Health Care
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