Deputy Team Manager - Family Placement Team

at  Bath and North East Somerset Council

TEMPORARY MATERNITY COVER

We are looking for a highly motivated Deputy Team Manger to join our Family Placement Team, which is based in the Civic Centre, Keynsham. This is a full-time maternity cover post.
You will be part of a ‘Good’ local authority where Ofsted said children in Bath and North East Somerset receive a good service. Practitioners are creative, thoughtful and effective in making children safer, and keeping families together whenever possible.
The Family Placement Team recruits, assesses and supports alternative carers such as kinship and foster carers as well as supported lodgings hosts, to provide homes for children and young people. We also recruit, assesses and support fostering families’ carers which is a unique model within the UK.
This is an exciting time to join the team. We work systemically and passionately with a broad range of carers, to ensure that they have what they need to care for children. We support therapeutic models of parenting and support staff and carers to work in this way.
We are looking for a candidate with experience of supporting diverse families to manage issues of risk and trauma. We are looking for a deputy team manager who wants to support kinship care in particular.
Bath and North East Somerset Council expects high standards in our work with children and young people and our carers. In return we provide high quality supervision and excellent training opportunities. We provide peer support and mentoring as well as regular line management supervision. We are a learning organisation and committed to maximise the talents and effectiveness of all of our staff.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE IS SUBJECT TO AN ENHANCED DBS CHECK.

Safeguarding Statement: The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.