Team Manager - IAA & Safeguarding Team

Team Manager - IAA & Safeguarding Team
Job description
37 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity to join our MASH Service in the role of Team Manager.

You will be responsible for the daily management of the team including the Early Help and Prevention screeners.

The MASH is the first point of contact for Children's Social Care, the team has responsibility for giving advice to families and professionals, making decisions in relation to contacts and undertaking good quality What Matters assessments.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES

• Overall management for MASH through the provision of leadership, motivation and direction to staff within the service. Allocating and prioritising the work of the team ensuring prompt and appropriate decision making at point of contact, appropriate assessment of cases in a timely way and deployment of resource to meet identified needs.
• Involving service users and carers in planning and designing services.
• Managing staff and undertaking supervision and appraisal, providing advice and consultation to social work and other support staff in accordance with policy. Managing staff in line with and adherence to the Human Resources policy and procedural frameworks.
• Analysing performance information to assist timeliness of assessments, reviews and other formally reported performance. Ensuring quality and content of assessments and plans in line with local and national guidance. Making decisions and judgements about risk of abuse within agreed management framework.
• Ensuring that permanency planning is in place and includes a range of options that will provide security of attachment and continuity of care.
• Contributing to strategic/management meetings and effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working. Supporting the Group Manager in the Group Manager's responsibility to ensure the effective and efficient operation of the work of the service area including the evaluation of the achievement of objectives, targets, priorities and standards. Assisting the Senior Management Team in the development of strategy, policy and procedures.
• Participating in induction and other programmes of training for staff. Alerting the Group Manager to action necessary to develop the competencies of staff in the service area as well as the potential need to institute disciplinary procedures and to participate in these procedures where necessary.

We are fully committed to the Signs of Safety model in Bridgend, and you will receive full training in how to incorporate this way of working into your daily functions.

Please note that Enhanced Police Vetting will be necessary for the successful applicant.

You will receive a £4,000 Market Supplement and a relocation package up to £8,000 will be considered for this post.

For further information surrounding the post please contact Raeanna Grainger, Group Manager on .

The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

An Enhanced with Childrens Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.

A valid driving licence is requirement for this post.

The council's Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.

Closing Date: 27 August 2025

Shortlisting Date: 29 August 2025

Interview Date:12 September 2025

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