Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 37 per week

Salary: Grade H7 SCP 60 - 66 £69,682 - £76,185 per annum

Closing Date: 21st October 2024 at 23:59pm

This post is open to employees currently On Notice/At Risk and Internal. Please note applications from employees currently On Notice/At Risk will be given priority. On Notice/At Risk employees should complete the application form as normal, upon submission you must email the Recruitment Team – recruitment@blackpool.gov.uk to ensure that your application form is marked as priority.

If you love a challenge and enjoy developing people and services, working with partners and the community, listening to those with lived experience to better meet the needs of one of the most deprived communities in the land, building aspiration, confidence and achievement, helping people to live their best life, we have the role for you.

Come and join our Blackpool team, where you can use your compassionate leadership skills, coaching style and extensive experience and knowledge to inspire and support our workforce and partners to really make a difference to outcomes for our population in relation to a broad range of adult social care services. You will be an inspirational manager/leader and creative problem solver, who will lead, guide and support our workforce, and listen to the experiences of those we are here to support, to deliver a responsive, legally compliant service that people and organisations in Blackpool value.

Blackpool has a strong history of collaborative partnership working with statutory organisations and the wider community sector. The post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively at all levels, be competent in advising in their area of expertise, be skilled in resolving conflict or differences or achieving a consensus approach, and be confident enough to offer robust, evidenced challenge where appropriate, at all times maintaining a focus on the people we serve.

You should be an experienced manager/leader with significant professional experience of working in adult social care services, including safeguarding assurance and professional practice development, and have an in-depth knowledge of the core business requirements relating to these areas.

This post is our senior leader in these areas, and is the Principal Social Worker overseeing good practice across adult services. As such, the successful candidate will have a comprehensive understanding of all relevant legislation and its practical application in an operational setting, as well as what good practice looks like, sufficient to enable you to support and guide others to be the best that we can be.

In return, you will be joining a leadership team that prides itself on supporting each other and achieving great things together, in a Unitary Authority small enough to be agile in decision making and 'doing the right thing' for our population, supported by a wider officer and member structure that takes an active and productive interest in our delivery, issues, and developments on behalf of Blackpool's population.

Blackpool is a great place to work, to live, and to enjoy our many leisure activities and open spaces. Economic development in the town is building confidence and aspiration and bringing new opportunities, and we are working on Levelling Up and reducing the level of disadvantage in health, wellbeing and life chances in the town. We need leaders like you who can not only ensure we are meeting health and care needs, but also be a part of ensuring all our population can thrive and take advantage of the many opportunities this brings.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are protected and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Have you got what it takes to ride the Roller Coaster ride of Social Work in Blackpool? for further information on the career path and development opportunities available at Blackpool please see here.