Team Manager with the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub

Job description

Job responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Team Manager to work within the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) based at the Police Headquarters, Hinchingbrooke.

The post covers Cambridgeshire County Council and is co-located with our partner agencies. MASH works closely with the Customer Service Centre who receives all referrals and creates these on the Liquid Logic system for the MASH.

To be successful in this role you will have strong leadership skills and will have relevant experience working in Social Care. You will be overseeing multi agency enquires, using verbal and written communication skills to engage with MASH workers and partner agencies to apply thresholds for intervention and to analyse levels of risk on a daily basis.

You will be able to demonstrate that you can think creatively in delivering targeted support and intervention and have a significant level of knowledge and experience in children's social care. You will be able to demonstrate your ability and understanding of threshold application within in timely manner to ensure children, young people and families receive the right service at the right time. You will have proven experience in managing a team. This role will include work allocation, performance monitoring, dealing with staffing issues and the training and development of the Team.

You will be joining a highly effective and supportive team which is made up of both social care qualified and alternatively qualified staff co located with Health, Police, Adult MASH, Early Help and Education colleagues as well as a number of virtual partners. This post is hybrid days in the office and days working from home. We pride ourselves on providing all workers in the MASH with a friendly, safe, and supportive environment to work in.

If this sounds like an role that suits your skillset, we would love to hear from you! For more information, callBethon01223 475920or emailjoinus@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

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Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This role will be required to work from a Police building and therefore this post will be subject to the outcome of a Police vetting check.

Wesupportflexible working requests from day one of employment and so we are open to discussing different working patterns to help you bring your best self to work.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible and creativeworking arrangements
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensivewellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewardsemployee discounts
• A comprehensivepension scheme
• IDEALstaff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Camwebour staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employeerecognition scheme
• We offer a generous mileage allowance

We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.

You must:

• Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
• Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.

We want to hear from you about how you want to work that would help to bring your best self to Cambridgeshire. Prefer to work 37 hours over 4 days? Want to work 25 hours? Looking for a role where you can be flexible around commitments outside of work? Get in touch today and lets have a chat about the right working pattern for you!

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Huntingdon

PE29 3DQ

Employer's website

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)