Principal Manager Children's Support & Safeguarding South

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families?

Stoke-on-Trent is the place where you can do just that—and more. We're dedicated to ensuring that every child in our city thrives, reaches their full potential, and grows up in a supportive community. We're also committed to making Stoke-on-Trent the best place for social workers to build a rewarding career.

At the heart of everything we do is our community, Join us in shaping a bright future for Stoke-on-Trent, where children are at the heart of our efforts.

We are looking for an experienced and skilled practitioner to come and join our Children’s Support and Safeguarding Teams as a Principal Manager.

You will be managing a small team of social workers providing a locality based service to children and their families in Stoke on Trent where there are safeguarding concerns and need for support and intervention at the level of child in need plan or child protection plan.

You will be working with parents and wider family under the pre-proceedings procedures with the aim of building strength and safety within children’s own family networks so that children can live safely within their birth family, and if this is not possible permanency plans can be progressed in a timely way.

You will value creativity and problem solving, developing a culture of learning and development.You will be passionate about working collaboratively with children and their families, strengths based practice, working with diversity and placing the child’s voice at the heart of decision making.

You will be responsible for direct line management of social workers and social work assistants, providing reflective supervision. You will be restorative in your approach to your team, partner agencies and most importantly the children and families we work with.

You will be part of a permanent team manager group and will be supervised by a permanent and experienced Head of Service. You will have access to our extensive learning and development offer to help you develop in your role.

Amongst the benefits we offer are:

Up to 41 days holiday (including 8 days bank holidays)
Option to buy extra annual leave
Flexible working hours
Hybrid working
High quality reflective supervision
Health and wellbeing support
Access to staff equality and diversity networks

We believe in empowering families and creating positive life experiences for all. To achieve this, we're heavily investing in high-quality learning and development for our team, with a strong focus on:

Restorative and Relational Practice: Balancing high support with high challenge.
Child-Friendly City: Making Stoke-on-Trent a place where children’s needs come first.
Listening to Children: Ensuring the voices of our children are heard and have a real impact on decisions.

Come and join out motivated and passionate team as we strive towards creating great outcomes for children and young people in our city!

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment

If you are interested in applying for this post then please feel free to contact

Head Of Service Sally Tolhurst to discuss further.
Sally.Tolhurst@stoke.gov.uk

Please note that you will need to have prior agreement from your current Head of Service should you wish to apply for a secondment.