West Sussex County Council
Team Manager
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Salary: £62,561 to £66,848 per annum including market supplement
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full time (37 hours per week)
Location: Horsham area
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and inspiring leader to join our Children We Care For Service as a Team Manager with a strategic focus on permanence.
Permanence is at the heart of everything we do. It is about much more than finding the right home. It is about helping children experience stability, belonging, strong relationships and the security they need to thrive throughout their lives.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated leader who shares our ambition for children and young people and can champion high-quality permanence planning across the organisation. This is a unique role that combines direct team leadership with the opportunity to influence practice, decision-making and outcomes across the wider service.
Working from a strengths-based, relationship-centred and trauma-informed approach, you will support practitioners to keep children's lived experiences, voices and long-term needs at the centre of all planning. You will challenge drift and delay, promote creative and ambitious permanence planning, and help ensure that permanence is considered from the earliest stages of a child's journey.
Alongside your strategic responsibilities, you will lead a small team of social workers, providing reflective supervision, professional support and clear management oversight. Maintaining a smaller team creates the capacity to focus on service-wide development, build strong partnerships and drive improvements in permanence practice across Children's Services.
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This Is An Opportunity To
- Lead and develop a skilled and committed team.
- Influence permanence practice across the organisation.
- Champion children's voices and relationships in planning and decision-making.
- Support innovative and ambitious permanence plans that secure lasting outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with practitioners, managers and partner agencies to improve children's experiences of care.
- Be part of a service that is committed to relationship-based practice, learning and continuous improvement.
We Are Looking For Someone Who Is
- Passionate about achieving the very best outcomes for children and young people.
- An experienced and credible leader who can inspire and influence others.
- Skilled in building strong relationships and partnerships.
- Confident in driving practice improvement and leading change.
- Committed to strengths-based and trauma-informed approaches.
- Ambitious for children and determined to keep permanence and belonging at the heart of practice.
If you are passionate about helping children achieve stability, security and a lifelong sense of belonging, we would love to hear from you.
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Join us and help shape permanence practice so that every child has the opportunity to build lasting relationships, experience stability and achieve their full potential.
Rewards and Benefits
Benefits
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do. Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including:
For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.
About Us
Our Children We Care For teams are ambitious for every child and young person. We believe that every child deserves the opportunity to experience safety, stability, love, belonging and enduring relationships.
Our practitioners work creatively alongside children, families, carers and partners to help children achieve positive futures. We recognise that permanence is more than a care plan. It is about creating lifelong connections, a strong sense of identity and the foundations for children to thrive throughout their lives.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a service committed to continuous improvement, innovation and achieving excellence for children.
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