Strategic Manager (Childrens) - Stoke

Strategic Manager – Stoke
Childrens Social Care
Rate: up to £600 per day
 
We are recruiting for motivated qualified social worker to join our busy team. This role is with one of the UK’s highest performing local authorities, serving as one of the best places to live and work in.
 
This is a qualified role requiring you to be SWE registered and have relevant experience within children’s services.
 
An exciting opportunity has arisen on a fixed term contract for a Strategic Manager for the social work Assessment Teams, CHAD and EDT.
 
This opportunity is available for applications from suitably qualified and experienced internal and agency staff. This position will be line managed by the Assistant Director.
 
The Strategic Manager for this role should have considerable experience of managing social work teams and ideally experience of managing the Children’s Social Care assessment, front door and emergency duty functions. They should also be able to evidence how they have delivered excellent performance and improvement in their current management role.
 

• Stoke on Trent has been voted as one of the friendliest places in the UK
• We are a very small geographical area and cover locality basis therefore travelling between visits, once in Stoke is extremely limited in terms of mileage
• Opportunities to become a ‘champion’ in various different areas of practice and development
• Secured funding for ‘family hubs’ and have been rolling these out across the city creating a fantastic early help offer including parenting programmes, confidence building courses, adult learning offer, food banks and charitable support plus much more
• We have a strong management team and also senior managers who are very supported
• Free parking via our critical user parking permit for various car parks across the city, including parking on the multi-deck car park next to the office
• Our culture is very much based upon team work, supporting each other and working together with our multi-agency professionals, this is emphasised by our locality working and strong working relationships
• Our model of working is restorative practice and this is well imbedded into our practice now

 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you.
 

• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more

 
Please contact Joe Thomas-Samuels on 07860876427 or joe.thomas-samuels@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.