Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community.
We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.
Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority employing around 1,800 staff working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.
Southend itself is a vibrant place to live and work, offering coastal living alongside excellent and fast transport links into London.The team is committed to working together with parents and carers, education settings and partner agencies to ensure children and young people with SEND are given the best opportunity to thrive and succeed.
Southend-on-Sea Council's Fostering Support Team are looking to appoint a permanent, full-time Supervising Social Worker to train, assess, supervise and support Foster Carers in their role of looking after children and young people.
Your new role
Ensuring that the highest professional standards and a good overall knowledge of relevant children's and fostering legislation, regulations and practice methods are met.You will provide an efficient service to children, young people, their families and fostering families, ensuring that the needs of children and their parents and carers are professionally assessed.
Southend-on-Sea City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent Court Progression Manager to ensure the excellence of social work practice, and professional conduct in public family law settings (The 'Public Law Outline' - care proceedings and pre- proceedings) and the timely execution of the local authority's public law applications and its pre-proceedings activity.
Your new role
Ensuring that the voices of the children involved, their wishes, aspirations and feelings are always heard, and are at the heart of the local authority's public law activity and care order applications.
Southend-on-Sea Council's Fostering Support Team are looking to appoint a permanent, full-time Supervising Social Worker to train, assess, supervise and support Foster Carers in their role of looking after children and young people.
Your new role
Ensuring that the highest professional standards and a good overall knowledge of relevant children's and fostering legislation, regulations and practice methods are met.You will provide an efficient service to children, young people, their families and fostering families, ensuring that the needs of children and their parents and carers are professionally assessed.
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent fostering experienced Team Manger.This post will be based within the Marketing and Permanency Team.As the new Team Manager, you will be taking the lead on recruiting and/or applications for prospective foster carers and managing the pipeline at stage 1 and 2.Working with the communication team, you will ensure the council provides a first-class professional service by being responsible for the efficient and cost-effective provision of needs-led services to children, young people and their families.You will be managing a team of 4, managing performance, providing formal professional supervision to staff and ensuring that appraisals are undertaken, identifying skills gaps or training needs are addressed.
Your new role
This is a hybrid post, but you are required to be on-site a minimum of 3 days a week and must attend the monthly onsite meetings.