Professional Development Manager in Westcott

Surrey Children's Services Academy is committed to fostering learning and growth across Children's Services. We design and deliver innovative development programs that empower individuals and teams to achieve excellence and drive positive outcomes for children and families. This exciting new role has been created for a social work qualified Team Manager to lead on the design, facilitation and delivery of a wide range of impactful learning and development activities. The role will be directly supporting the Families First Partnership Programme (FFPP) which is a multi-agency programme focused on early intervention and prevention to improve outcomes for children and families. Your work will directly influence service transformation and improve outcomes for children and families across Surrey.

In this role you will work closely with colleagues in the Academy to utilise their expertise and knowledge of resources and training materials. You will also collaborate with Team Managers and other staff in frontline children's social care teams, and partners as required. You will use your experience of delivering training to support staff to put learning into practice. This is a challenging but highly rewarding role, as every day you will see the impact your work has on the lives of the young people we support. The work is varied, and no two days will be the same, so you'll need to be adaptable and enjoy a challenge!

Responsibilities:

• Designing, facilitating and delivering a wide range of impactful learning and development activities to the workforce, related to skills and knowledge required under the Families First Partnership Programme.
• Working in partnership with operational managers to maximise the impact of staff learning and development activity on service quality and outcomes for service users.
• Working closely with, and supporting, other Team Managers in the Academy, and ensuring an enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.

Qualifications:

• A Social Work qualification such as a Degree, Masters or Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work, and registered with Social Work England.
• Significant experience of working in statutory social work roles with children, young people and their families, including Assessment skills, Child in Need work, and escalating to Child Protection.
• Experience of planning and delivering learning and training.

Benefits:

• The starting salary for this position is £54,636 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.
• 26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service (plus bank holidays).
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave.
• A generous local government salary related pension.
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year.
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave.
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing.
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources.
• Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping.
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents.

Our Commitment:

We are a disability confident employer which means if you have shared a disability on your application form and have evidenced you meet the minimum criteria, we guarantee you an interview. Your skills and experience truly matter to us. From application to your first day, we’re committed to supporting you with any adjustments you need, we value inclusion and warmly welcome you to join and help build a workplace where everyone belongs.