Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Salary: NJC Grade H4 SCP 41-46 £52,413 - £57,881 per annum

Closing Date: Wednesday 20th August 2025 at 23:59

This post is open to employees currently On Notice/At Risk and Internal.  Please note applications from employees currently On Notice/At Risk will be given priority. On Notice/At Risk employees should complete the application form as normal, upon submission you must email the Recruitment Team – recruitment@blackpool.gov.uk to ensure that your application form is marked as priority.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Blackpool for the position of Team Manager in Connected Care and SGO Support. This post sits within the Supporting Our Children Service alongside the Fostering and Adoption Teams. This is a well-established, bespoke, and very successful team; new opportunities in this area are rare. 

As a Team Manager you will oversee the quality assurance of the Initial Viability and the Dual Assessments, considering outcomes of Special Guardianship Orders or Connected Care Fostering, in respect of the wider family and friends of children in need of a plan of permanence. You will also consider requests for Regulations 24 and 25 and oversee the Special Guardianship Support offer. You will work alongside the wider partnership to consider ongoing and continued support needs for the families within the community who have children and young people in their care under Special Guardianship. The team consists of experienced Social Workers and Support Workers who are all permanent members of staff. They undertake the assessments and support offer within the service. You will be expected to offer regular direction, supervision and support to the team. There are also regional forums to assist development and support uniting all kinship services across the North West local authorities and have peer support within your leadership team.

You will receive regular support and supervision in a reflective space. You will embark on your own development journey with the use of an extensive training program from our bespoke Leadership Academy so are supported to progress your development, career and learning. Here in Blackpool we work under the principles of  “Blackpool Families Rock” which is an award winning way of empowering working together; understanding, listening, feeling and taking action: To support change for independent families and the wider community. We value our workforce and embrace this ideal and as a Team Manager you too will have the consistency of this approach. We aspire to continue to have a supportive, learning and reflective culture here in Blackpool.

What we offer

• Pay: our salary offer is strong and candidates who are recruited from the same or similar role may be eligible for a salary match within the above salary banding
• Genuine flexible working: family-friendly patterns such as flexible start/finish times and technological support to enable some working from home.
• Small teams, clear line management and practice development support
• A workload that is manageable, varied and appropriate to your role. 
• Easy and regular access to the senior leadership team & Principal Social Worker
• Social Work England registration fee is paid
• 26 days’ annual leave (rising to 28 after 5 yrs & 32 days after 10 yrs) and the option to buy an additional 5 days on top of that, via salary sacrifice. 
• Encouragement to take your TOIL back – we mean it!
• Supervision: our strengthened supervision policy supports you to build a trusting relationship with your manager. 
• Leadership is ‘good’ and ‘stable’ 
• Career development is focused on supporting your development.
• Relocation support up to £8,000
• Blackpool Council Staff benefit scheme: Social Work Benefits and Diversity | Next Step Blackpool
• Employee Assistance Programme, to support you through challenging times e.g. with free counselling, financial or legal advice.
• Mental Health First Aiders that are here for you
• Principal Social Worker Best Practice Awards are our way of saying ‘thank you’ to our amazing and committed staff.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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