Assistant Service Manager
We are recruiting for the role of Assistant Service Manager covering Reading, West Berkshire, and Wokingham. You will join a team based from our Reading office, but we work flexibly and remotely, so proximity to the office is not critical.
We are a diverse, inclusive organisation and a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds.
Responsibilities
* Manage a team of Family Court Advisers, ensuring they understand what good looks like in Public and Private law cases.
* Provide reflective case supervision and champion the values and core practice framework, “Together with Children and Families”.
* Safeguard and protect the welfare of children, supporting colleagues to meet safeguarding standards.
* Be accountable for own practice and the quality and impact of the practice quality standards of the Family Court Advisers directly managed.
Qualifications
* Registered with Social Work England.
* Organised, resilient and experienced in supervising, coaching or mentoring social workers.
* Promotes resilience and wellbeing at work, maintains morale and confidently manages employees with a wide range of professional experience.
* Good communicator, both orally and in writing, with emotional intelligence at all levels, especially when interacting with children.
Benefits
We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits.
Pre‑Employment Checks
Successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre‑engagement checks, including a DBS check. If an individual has a declared criminal offence an assessment will be completed according to our policy.
About Cafcass
We are Cafcass – the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service – representing children in family court cases in England and independently advising the family courts about what is safe and in the best interests of children.
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