All Team Managers in our CSW Service receive a retention payment of £3,500 per annum. (In place for two years, paid in instalments)
This is a great time to join Plymouth as a Team Manager in our Children's Social Work Service. Our ILACS in January 2024 found some key practice strengths in our Children’s Social Work Teams. Child protection work was found to be timely and appropriate, with a clear understanding of risks for children with timely assessment and support to families which is preventing drift and delay for children in proceedings. Many social workers know their children well and build positive relationships with them. For most children, decision-making for them to come into care is appropriate and in their best interests. Through our new three-year plan, Heading for Excellence, we are building on these strengths with a programme designed to ensure all children and young people experience high quality assessment and planning which improves wider outcomes for them, keeping families together where possible working closely with partners to keep children and young people safe, improve attendance, educational attainment, health and wellbeing.
We are developing a high performing and well supported workforce delivering our trauma informed, restorative and strengths-based practice approach. We are determined that within the next three years we will deliver good and outstanding outcomes for all of the children and young people we are working with.
As a Team Manager you will be confident in what good and outstanding practice looks like and in supporting your team to deliver timely and effective assessments, planning and interventions across the child's journey. You will be committed to restorative and relationship driven approaches and have experience of bringing out the best in people. We offer a supportive team environment, a commitment to manageable workloads, high quality support and supervision, and access to excellent learning and development opportunities from our Plymouth Academy to support you to develop at all stages of your career.
If you want to hear more about the great things that are happening in Plymouth Children’s Service drop us an email to abrightfuture@plymouth.gov.uk and we will be in touch.