Senior Fieldwork Manager Leaving Care service
We are seeking a confident, motivated and inspirational manager with a proven track record of creating change and making a difference to young people’s lives. You will support the Service Manager and lead a team of professional practitioners in the Leaving Care service.
You’ll be accountable for ensuring overall service delivery with responsibility for performance and resource management.
You will be a talented influencer, a strong networker and be able to build multi-agency relationships and partnerships with our partners within Leaving care, for better services to children and their families. It is therefore important that you are highly experienced and already successful in your Social Work role.
Social work qualified and registered with Social Work England, you will have significant post-qualification experience in statutory children’s services and a portfolio of your up- to- date continuous professional development. You will manage a team of Personal Advisors and Advanced Social Work practitioner.
Key Benefits
- Annual leave 26 days per year plus public holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years’ service. Opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days per year leave.
- At least 3 days per year dedicated for Continuous Professional Development with excellent career progression routes including leadership and management University courses
- Up to 6 days paid carers leave is available for those with caring responsibility
- Relocation package up to £7,494 towards costs if you need to relocate
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Employee assistance programme providing valuable advice on a range of issues such as personal finances, counselling sessions and legal advice.
- Generous Local government pension scheme
- Discounts off Vodafone, Westfield Health and Public transport
- Salary sacrifice employee car lease scheme and city car club
- Cycle to work scheme and free eye-sight tests
- Affordable housing and within 10 minutes drive of the Peak District
Further information: Cerrianne.Evans@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.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
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.