Duty Team Manager - Child protection

Our client St.Helens MBC is looking for a Team manager to join their Child protection team.

The role of the Duty Team Manager is to manage a Duty team of 6 social workers, one social work assistant, with the support of one assistant team manager.

The Duty Service, responds to all referrals from the front door and completes all children and family assessments. It will be the role of the Duty Manager to ensure the timely allocation and oversight of all allocations of assessments in the team and then subsequent plans that follow. The Duty Service doesn't hold cases on a long term basis and has transfer points at the point of ICPC, PLO or the issuing of care proceedings. The team will hold some child in need work that is not complex, where the CIN plan can be managed on a short term basis. ,ore complex child in need will also transfer.

The right candidate therefore will have experience in oversight and managing sec 47 investigations, multi agency working, experience of...