Team Manager - Children's Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you an experienced Team Manager looking for your next challenge or a skilled MASH Senior Social Worker/Practitioner looking for the next step in your career? If so we have a great opportunity for you. The Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) are looking for a dynamic individual to work alongside 2 other team managers.

The role is based at the Police Headquarters, Hinchingbrooke and is co-located with our partner agencies: Health, Police, Adult MASH, Early Help and Education as well as a number of virtual partners. MASH works closely with the Customer Service Centre who receive all referrals and create these on the Liquid Logic system for the MASH.

You will be joining a highly effective and supportive team that is made up of both social care qualified and alternatively qualified staff. This post is hybrid with 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 a role that suits your skill set, we would love to hear from you! For more information, or an informal chat, call Nathalie Watkins on 01223 475920 or email joinus@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

Interviews will be held week commencing 9th June

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.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensivewellbeing package to coverall aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidaysflexibly to better suityour personal circumstances
• MakeAdditional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access todevelopment opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to supportyour personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make apositive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access toPeer Support Groups through our IDEAL staffequality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receiveEmployee Recognition Awards
• AnOur Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and onlinediscounts as well as ourCar Lease andCycle to Work schemes

In this role, you will review all incoming contacts, allocate work, sign off outcomes, monitor performance, and handle staffing issues, while taking responsibility for the training and development of the team.

You will oversee multi-agency enquiries, using verbal and written communication skills to engage with MASH workers and partner agencies, applying thresholds for intervention and analysing risk levels daily.

There is line management of one Senior Practitioner and three Social Workers, alongside responsibility for the CAIOs within your team, who are managed by your Senior Practitioner.

Additionally, you will support partnership efforts by leading specific areas of MASH work, chair daily MASH meetings, liaise daily with internal social care and early help teams, and represent the MASH at weekly MARAC meetings.

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 a timely manner, to ensure children, young people and families receive the right service at the right time.

You will have strong leadership skills with experience in managing a team.

You will be able to engage well with agency partners and help drive effective working relationship.

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

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.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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.

https://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.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Huntingdon

PE29 3DQ

Employer's website

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