Team Manager - Family Safeguarding

Bury

Full Time

£52,413.21 - £53,459.66 plus £2000 market supplement

Become a Children’s Team Manager for Bury and help with our ‘Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.

About the role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Team Bury. We are a supportive and small Local Authority, where we are continuing our improvement journey. We consider that Team Managers are an important and integral part of that journey, and we promise to develop your skills and support your learning. We understand that this is one of the most challenging and rewarding roles in Social Work.

We want the best talent in Bury and need practitioners who will help influence the services we are developing. We want to help you to grow, to develop confident practitioners and teams and be the best you can be.

We are one of the first Authorities in the North-West to be pioneering the Hertfordshire Family Safeguarding Model of working with families and training will be provided to learn new skills within our Model of practice. You will be working alongside Adult Practitioners, giving you more time and scope to work with children. Working collectively, we prioritise support, training and development to within child centred practice. If you are enthusiastic about improving the lives and opportunities for children, young people and their families and want to work and develop your practice, then we want to hear from you!

Within Family Safeguarding we use motivational interviewing and a multi‑agency approach, where Social Workers, Family Support Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Recovery Workers, Mental Health Practitioners, and Psychologists collaborate closely to support families to find their own solutions effectively, reducing the need for referrals to other agencies and improving outcomes for families.

We want to invest in you, and we have a clear vision around succession planning for our most talented workers. You will have the support and opportunities to progress your journey in Social Work.

At the heart of everything we do are the children and young people of Bury. We want staff who can form trusted relationships, working with the strengths in families and building on those assets, always looking for solutions to support families to live together safely and for children and young people to thrive. Your role as a Manager is to support the opportunities for this work to flourish.

As a Team Manager you will lead a team comprising of two Advanced Social Work practitioners and 5 Social Workers. The team is also made up of a business support officer, domestic abuse officer, domestic abuse practitioner, mental health practitioner, drug and alcohol worker, family support worker and a clinical psychologist.

You will have oversight of children and young people who are subject to child in need and child protection planning, who are subject to pre‑proceedings and in care and private law proceedings.

You will be supporting our development of our Families First Partnership Programme Development, and this is a very exciting time to be working in Local Authority Social Work, and in particular to be working in Bury!

About Bury

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way.

Benefits of working for Bury Council

To hear about the benefits for working with Bury Council, please visit A good employer | greater jobs. We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

Next steps

Come and join Team Bury!

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you!

Please call Kathy Owen on 0161 2536150 for an informal conversation or email Kathy.Owen@Bury.gov.uk

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