Portsmouth Council require a Team Leader for the looked after children team,

This position will pay up to £47.50 per hour

Building Your Futures is an aspirational team who are passionate about children and young people's futures. The team are creative, and child focused and strive for positive outcomes for the children we care for.

The Building Your Futures Team supports children and young people who are looked after in foster care, cared for by connected carers or family, and specialist care, and where there is a plan to support children Going Home (reunification). The team, work alongside a wide range of professionals and multi-agencies to support effective care planning for the children we care for.

As Team Leader you will be responsible for leading and supporting a dedicated pod of Social Worker's. This includes staff development and learning through mentoring, and reflective supervision. Alongside managing performance, data, and absence, you will also encourage your pod of social worker's to be creative and solution focused in responding to individual needs. We believe strongly in involving children and young people in all aspects of their care plans and the services we provide to meet their care needs.

The role also includes supporting the ongoing development of the Going Home pathway and monitoring of children's plans to ensure permanence is a key feature, alongside monitoring transitions for young people reaching adulthood.

You will act as duty manager on a Rota and be responsible for chairing meetings, quality assuring and supporting assessments of risk and need. You will be required to attend working groups to represent Building Your Futures service.

What you'll need to succeed.

Who is the person?

You need to:

1. Have a Diploma or Degree in social work and be registered with Social Work England. Evidence of post qualifying experience would be an advantage.

2. Be passionate about working with young people and motivated to achieve good outcomes for children and young people. Be curious, creative and solution focused.

3. Work effectively as part of the Service and liaise professionally with a range of key stakeholders including children, families, colleagues, other professionals and senior managers

4. Have experience of managing staff or students and be able to support staff to grow and learn through the use of reflective supervision.

5. Have the ability to support and challenge their supervisees appropriately to ensure standards of practice are maintained.

6. Be able to problem solve when dealing with a variety of challenges and demonstrate confidence in working within agreed timescales.

7. Contribute to the process of staff development, including workforce development and/or reporting to the Service Leader about capability and disciplinary matters.

8. Have good organisational, leadership and communication skills, including proficient use of ICT and ability to produce high quality analysis.

9. Contribute to service development and lead on specific projects as directed by the Service Leader

if you're interested in this role then please email your CV to (url removed) or call (phone number removed)