Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: Grade H6 SCP 53 - 59 £63,747 - £70,313 per annum (plus overtime payment for EDT on call)

Closing Date: 2nd January 2025 at 23:59pm

This advert is open to both internal and external applicants however, internal applicants will be considered for this role prior to external candidates.

Service Manager - Blackpool Family Safeguarding 

This is an opportunity to lead our Supporting and Strengthening Service with the embedding of our co-produced Blackpool Families Rock model of practice, which is a relationship, restorative and strengths-based approach to enabling and supporting families.

The service aims to support practitioners to work in partnership with families to ensure that, where appropriate, children and young people are cared for by their family within their community.

Social Work caseloads are manageable in order to create the space for meaningful relationships with children, young people and families.

The service focuses upon children, young people and families who require longer-term support via CIN, those children and young people subject to Child Protection Plans, children at risk of or suffering exploitation and those subject to Public Law Outline, Pre-Proceedings and initial applications to the Courts. Also within the service is the Supporting Children with Complex Needs Team, Emergency Duty Team, and a solution focused brief intervention team known as the Families Together Intervention Team.

"Strengthening families is at the core of what we do"

For further information please contact Toni Malone, Head of Service on Toni.Malone@blackpool.gov.uk

What we offer

• Pay: our salary offer is strong and candidates who are recruited from the same or similar role may be eligible for a salary match within the above salary banding
• Genuine flexible working: family-friendly patterns such as flexible start/finish times and state of the art technology support, so you can spend some time working from home.
• Small teams, clear line management and practice development support
• Caseloads: they’re going down, they’re manageable, varied and appropriate to your role. 
• Easy and regular access to the senior leadership team & Principal Social Worker
• Social Work England registration fee is paid
• 26 days’ annual leave (rising to 28 after 5 yrs & 32 days after 10 yrs) and the option to buy an additional 5 days on top of that, via salary sacrifice. 
• Encouragement to take your TOIL back – we mean it!
• Supervision: our strengthened supervision policy supports you to build a trusting relationship with your manager. 
• Leadership is ‘good’ and ‘stable’ – DfE appointed Independent Commissioner.
• Career development is focused on supporting your development.
• Relocation support up to £8,000 (where eligible)
• Blackpool Council Staff benefit scheme: Social Work Benefits and Diversity | Next Step Blackpool
• Employee Assistance Programme, to support you through challenging times e.g. with free counselling, financial or legal advice.
• Mental Health First Aiders that are here for you
• Principal Social Worker Best Practice Awards are our way of saying ‘thank you’ to our amazing and committed staff.

It all adds up to an exciting package. 

We’ve strengthened our recruitment process too - You’ll get a quick response to any expression of interest and application. We offer regular virtual interview days, and we will keep in contact with you from the day you are offered a role to your first day with us.

Find out about everything Blackpool has to offer as a place to live and work at 
Next Step Blackpool | Jobs in Blackpool

to view the Job Description.

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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