Operational Delivery Enhanced Team Leader

We are recruiting for the role of a specialist Team Manager in the home finding hub. You will co-manage the home finding hub and directly supervise the referral and placement officer team. We are seeking a full-time worker on a permanent basis.

Lead and supervise the team: Directly supervise five Referral and Placement Officers responsible for external searches for foster care, residential provision, short breaks and supported accommodation.

Oversee child-centred home finding: Work closely with social workers to ensure referrals are balanced, reflect each child's needs and capture their wishes and feelings.

Build effective partnerships: Develop and maintain positive working relationships with the social workers, managers, our internal children's homes, commissioners, Quality Assurance and external providers.

Champion children's voices: Represent children and young people clearly and meaningfully in meetings and written information, ensuring their views inform home-finding decisions.

Focus on outcomes: Keep children's safety, wellbeing, education, relationships and preparation for adulthood central to the work.

Provide organised operational leadership: Bring sound knowledge of relevant legislation and processes, alongside a clear focus on service delivery and performance.

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply
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This role is Countywide so there will be some travelling within Warwickshire and also beyond Warwickshire to children and young people placed further afield.

This role will be primarily undertaken within office hours however agile working will be required, with some evening work depending on the needs of families.

If you are looking for a role and embrace a challenge and have experience of and a passion for working with children and young people in care, we look forward to hearing from you.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire's Children and Families service.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

Operational Delivery Enhanced Team Leader

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

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