Senior Fieldwork Manager Sheffield Safeguarding hub

This is an exciting time to join Sheffield City Council’s frontline Children’s Services. We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable children and young people are effectively supported to reach their full potential, delivered through our effective early help and prevention services, and strong partnerships that ensure safeguarding remains the highest priority for children and young people in Sheffield.

To help deliver our vision, we need an experienced, self-motivated, innovative and creative social work professional to join our supportive team in the Sheffield Safeguarding Hub (MASH).  You will have a social work qualification and be SWE registered. You will need experience and skills in partnership working across Children's Services and to promote co-operation, working together with other organizations and service users as the means of shaping, developing and delivering services.

You will ensure that children, young people and families receive timely, first class specialist assessments, clearly identifying risks and needs and oversee the development and implementation of a focused multi agency plan to protect them. To ensure care plans are of a high quality, that they have a clear evidence base and that they are regularly reviewed and are well recorded.

We have a number of Management Training Pathways and you will have opportunities to develop your learning through excellent professional development.

You will have a significant post qualification experience in Children and Families front line statutory social work and will be required to supervise a team of six social workers.  

You will have the ability to advise and make decisions on complex cases as well as monitoring work plans to ensure performance standards are achieved, in terms of consistency and quality.

Further information:  Kevin.Stevens@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.  All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.