ASSISTANT TEAM MANAGER - FAMILY PLACEMENT TEAM

This is a fixed term, full time position for 37 hours per week until March 2028.
Are you a passionate, qualified Social Worker with a drive to make a real impact in children’s lives? Pembrokeshire County Council is seeking a dynamic Assistant Team Manager to join our Family Placement Team - a collaborative and forward-thinking Children’s Services team dedicated to safeguarding and supporting families across Pembrokeshire.

As the Assistant Team Manager, you’ll:

• Champion the development of services that promote stability and support for children unable to live with birth families.
• Oversee the assessment and ongoing support of mainstream and kinship foster carers. Supported lodgings providers and step parent adoptions.
• Lead service improvements including training, support groups, and access to resources.
• Supervise social workers, student social workers and support workers ensuring high standards of professional development.
• Represent the Family Placement Team at child protection conferences, legal planning meetings and court proceedings.
• This post also includes supervisory responsibility, involvement in foster panel management, and preparation for CSSIW inspections.

As the successful candidate, you will hold relevant qualifications, demonstrate your knowledge of childcare and fostering legislation and have proven experience of working within the Family Placement arena. You will also bring project management experience and an ability to work with flexibility while under pressure.
IT and communication skills and a valid UK driving licence are essential.
Joining our team in Pembrokeshire will provide many opportunities for you to bring new ideas, develop professionally, and to contribute directly to the service to promote a culture of continuous improvement, reflection and learning.

With its breath-taking scenery, coastal lifestyle and a range of leisure activities, Pembrokeshire has a lot to offer; and so do we. As well as a supportive management team, the following is just a taster of the range of benefits of joining the PCC team:

• Generous Annual Leave of up to 31 days
• Membership of the Local Government ‘career average’ defined benefit pension scheme
• Flexible and agile working options
• A wide range of resources to support your health and wellbeing, including a professional in-house occupational health service and access to counselling services
• Generous occupational maternity and paternity pay plan, on top of statutory benefits
• Access to employee discounts on a range of products, services and attractions including leisure centres
• Salary sacrifice car and cycle schemes
• Generous relocation package up to GBP 8,000 - which could include for example rent in lieu of a planned house purchase, removal and storage fees and legal/mortgage arrangement fees for house purchase

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Professional Registration: Successful applicants will be required to be registered as a social worker with Social Care Wales prior to taking up their post and to be able to provide evidence of this.

Please refer the Job description for details