Emergency Duty Team Manager/Practitioner

Grade K SCP 39 £50,269- SCP 43 £54,495 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa and this role attracts 7% and 30% enhancements for weekend, overnight and Bank Holiday working
Contract: Permanent
Essential Requirement: Full Driving Licence, DBS, Registered with SWE, Registered AMHP
Essential Qualification: Social Work qualified
Interview date: To be confirmed
For further information about this role, contact Natalie Nicholson Natalie.nicholson@bolton.gov.uk

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role
(Salary up to £54,495 plus essential car user and allowances for out of hours working)

This role sits within our Emergency Duty Service, which works out of hours across evenings, weekends and bank holidays. This is an exciting opportunity to manage and lead a small team of social workers who deliver an essential service for the whole Council.

This is none case holding role whereby you will be managing 4.5 Social Workers, supervising the Social Workers regarding their adult safeguarding, children’s safeguarding, their mental health work and homelessness. You will also be coordinating the rota and shifts, working collaboratively with all partner agencies across Bolton and managing performance. You will also work as part of the rota if required and be an experienced AMHP.

This role sits within the portfolio of the Senior Head of Service for the Integrated Front Door, Referral & Assessment Service and Emergency Duty Service and is part of this management team. You will also have a strong relationship with Adult Services Management Team and the Adult Mental Health Services.

In 2023 we retained our overall GOOD grading from Ofsted in our ILACS.

As set out in our Bolton 2030 vision, our aim is to support people to Start Well, Live Well and Age Well and we are passionate about keeping children and young people at the heart of the work we do. We want to make sure all our children and young people have the best possible start in life, so they have every chance to succeed and be happy.

Bolton is a fantastic place to work, and our employees thrive working here. We are incredibly proud of our Bolton Family, of which you will become an integral part.

If this sounds like an opportunity you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you. For an informal chat, please contact Natalie Nicholson , Head of Service Family Help, Triage 01204 337400

If you think you could be what we're looking for, please apply now with your CV and covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the role as covered in the job description and person specification.

About You
We want you to inspire us and have a real impact on the way we work. In return you will gain the opportunity to develop your professional and managerial skills and your career in a challenging and supportive environment.

You will be motivated and enthusiastic, with excellent communication skills enabling you to build professional relationships with professionals who require advice and guidance when contacting the team out of hours. You will role model best practice to the Social Workers you manage and ensure they have the support and necessary skills to work out of hours.

You will have good knowledge and experience in safeguarding children and adults, as well as being able to make timely and safe threshold decisions out of hours. You will be an experienced AMHP being able to undertake Mental health Assessments and supervise and support those less experienced.

You will act as a champion for the EDT service across the Council and partner agencies, taking the lead in service development and improvement within the department of Children’s Social Care and Early Help, role modelling Research in Practice and undertaking high quality social work practice out of hours.

About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk