In East Riding we are Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’

We are looking for an additional Team Manager within our busy and effective Children’s Safeguarding Hub who will take a lead for the Childrens Emergency Duty Team. We need a qualified and registered social worker who is a confident decision maker to join our vibrant and dedicated service on our journey to excellence.

The Safeguarding Hub and the Emergency Duty Team is the first point of contact for all potential safeguarding concerns in relation to children. You will manage a small team of Advanced Social Worker Practitioners who offer Emergency support, out of hours. Alongside this you will offer management support within the Safeguarding Hub and support staff in a multiagency forum with co-located partners. You will be part of a team of managers who work together to ensure that children receive the right service, at the right time.

Our ‘grow your own’ approach to social work training, the social work apprenticeship degree route alongside the development of the workforce academy, practice standards and quality assurance framework has created a solid foundation for consistent practice to be developed and has contributed to retention and recruitment.

In March 23, East Riding Childrens Support and Protection teams were awarded ‘good’ by Ofsted.

We understand the importance of equipping you with the tools to build meaningful relationships and make lasting changes to those we work with and who need us most.

We support our social work colleagues to deliver fantastic social work and champion social worker wellbeing with a strong focus on learning and development through our Stronger Together approach.

You will ideally have experience of working within an Emergency Duty Team and be able to support and develop the service to ensure practitioners have the knowledge, tools and experience to prioritise and manage complex children’s safeguarding situations. You will demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to work with partner agencies to ensure clear roles and responsibilities that put the child at the heart of the work we do.

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this is set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families and communities. Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

A well embedded model ensures we all have something to centre our practice on so that, while the work may be different, all of our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.

We have made excellent progress in our transformation journey, and we are ambitious.

This is an excellent opportunity to shine in a visible, well-resourced and well-regarded social care environment. There has never been a more exciting time to East Riding. If this kind of environment resonates with you and you are looking for a new opportunity, we’d be delighted to receive your application.

At East Riding, we know that we are Stronger Together