Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Market Supplement of A £4,893 to E £6,383
Due to our ongoing commitment to support the career and professional development of our social workers, we have two new Assistant Team Manager roles now available to recruit to.
Our Council has invested further in children’s social care. We have recruited additional permanent social workers in each of our four CASTs (Child Assessment and Safeguarding Teams, which have combined our referral and assessment and child in need teams). We have recruited a senior social worker in each CAST as well as two Family Practitioners per CAST, bringing in even more capacity. Our Resilience Around the Families Team is a dedicated resource with adult mental health professional, adult substance misuse professionals, child mental health specialists, and a team of trained volunteers. Our Family Hub offer is nationally recognised as good practice providing access to a range of targeted early intervention and early help support services including parenting and domestic abuse interventions.
A relocation grant of up to £8k is available if you are moving to the Isle of Wight. You will have 32 days annual leave a year to enjoy all what the Isle of Wight has to offer. In a recent poll with social workers across the Southeast, work life balance was their top priority when deciding on a job. We will invest in you and your career by providing you with five extra days for you to take to focus on your professional development with our support. We operate a nine-day fortnight which means you get an additional 26 days’ time off in lieu a year.
We have a positive, supportive culture and working environment. Even our agency workers do not want to leave and if they do, they ask to come back. We work to a strengths-based, multi-disciplinary approach focussed on building resilience in individuals, families, and communities, whilst managing risk and safeguarding children.
Ofsted have rated us as a GOOD children's social care across all areas following our last inspection published in 2019.
Ofsted found that:
'Children's lived experience is at the centre of social work practice on the Island.'
'Aspirational and highly competent leaders have a clear and shared vision for children's services.'
As the Assistant Team Manager, you will support your Team Manager and team members to achieve the best for children. Our Assistant Team Manager roles are the next step in our career pathway for social workers with an interest in progressing into senior management roles.
You will be contacted for an interview if you are successful with your application.
Find out more about working for the Isle of Wight Council and living on the Island here. For further information or an informal discussion, please contact Lauren Wicks lauren.wicks@iow.gov.uk or by calling on 01983 821000.
When you join #TeamIWC you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:
- Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays!
- Local Government pension scheme
- Discounted Solent ferry travel
- Island bus network discount
- Cycle to work scheme
- Staff parking permit scheme
- Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership
- National and local discounts & benefits schemes
A relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available to new employees specifically relocating to the Isle of Wight to take up a role with us. If you choose to commute to the Isle of Wight daily, you may be eligible get your travel costs reimbursed. Further details are available upon request.
Find out more about working for the Isle of Wight Council and living on the Island here.
The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by the Unacceptable Behaviour Policy, Employee Code of Conduct and Behaviours Framework. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees.
The Isle of Wight Council is an equal opportunities employer, who is proud to encourage applications from all cultures, backgrounds and abilities to better reflect the diversity within our local community. In addition to this, we are also a Disability Confident Employer. Along with a number of other areas of commitments, this means that providing you meet the basic essential requirements of the advertised role and have declared yourself as disabled, you will be offered an opportunity for an interview within the council.
This council and its schools recruit according to the council’s Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
This role falls within the strategic partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and Hampshire County Council. The employer will be the Isle of Wight Council and employment is on Isle of Wight terms and conditions. Hampshire County Council has delivered, on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council, all of its children’s services functions and will continue to do so until 2023. The original five-year partnership arrangement under direction of the Secretary of State finished in 2018 but has been extended voluntarily by both local authorities for a further five years.
The management reporting line for this role is ultimately through Hampshire County Council Children’s Services Director/Assistant Director and managers who take operational responsibility for children’s services.
If you have difficulty completing your online application or if you need further information about how to apply, telephone 01983 823134 or email callcentre@iow.gov.uk. Please note only applications completed and submitted online by the closing date will be accepted.
We often receive a high volume of applicants for our vacancies. If you do not hear from the recruiting manager within three weeks of the closing date, we regret that your application will not have been successful on this occasion. If unsuccessful, we actively encourage you to revisit our job pages and apply to alternate posts that may be suitable.
Closing Date: 9 October 2023
Interview Date: 17 October 2023