Job Introduction
Job Title: Team Manager – Dacorum Assessment Team
Starting Salary: £53,806 + £8,560 market enhancement progressing to £59,497 + £8,607 market enhancement per annum
Hours: 37
Location: Hemel Hempstead with travel countywide
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services
About the team
Assessment is a dedicated team within Hertfordshire Children’s Services, committed to safeguarding and supporting vulnerable children and families, playing a crucial role in assessing children’s needs and ensuring timely interventions.
About the role
As a Team Manager, you will lead and inspire a team of social workers and support staff. Your primary responsibility will be to oversee the assessment process for children and families, ensuring high-quality service delivery.
- Leadership: Provide effective and visible leadership, motivating and empowering staff.
- Assessment: Oversee the assessment of children’s needs, risk, and family circumstances.
- Supervision: Regularly supervise and appraise social workers to ensure effective service delivery.
- Collaboration: Work closely with other teams, agencies, and partners to achieve positive outcomes.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and statutory requirements.
About you
Essential:
- Qualified in Social Work and registered with Social Work England.
- Significant experience in children’s services, including assessment work.
- Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to react in a timely way in dealing with and processing safeguarding contacts.
- Previous management experience.
- Driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
Desirable:
- Experience of analysing data
To hear more about this opportunity please contact Cecilia.Ileyemi@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: w/c 13th April
This job role is within the Health and Social Care level 13 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles - Health and social care
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Additional information
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.