Court Progression Manager - Permanent

Your new role
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. 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. Ensuring children's plans for permanence are progressed quickly and efficiently through pre-and care proceedings, avoiding delay. There will also be a need to ensure that the social work evidence, assessments and plans of the local authority concerning the children subject to its care order applications and pre-proceedings (PLO) interventions are of the highest quality.You will take a leading role in innovation by improving the local activity within the public law framework and work in partnership with the courts, CAFCASS and other local authorities to achieve better outcomes for children. You will not hold a caseload but instead, collaborate closely with qualified social workers across all teams within Children's Services, supporting them in preparing their evidence for court and providing support and advice to Team Managers and practitioners for Legal Planning Meetings.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this position you must be able to work in the UK, have a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.You will need to have substantial post-qualification experience in social care/safeguarding settings. Have previous experience of working within the framework of the 1989 Children Act, Adoption and Children Act 2002, Children Act 2004 and other relevant legislation including Working Together 2013, 2015 and 2018.You will be required to visit locations in and out of the city easily, therefore a valid driving licence and car available for business use is essential.

What you'll get in return
Pension: Southend-on-Sea City Council provide membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) for employees aged under 75. The LGPS is a generous scheme and provides you with a future income, independent of share prices and stock market fluctuations.
Leave Entitlements: We offer our employees a generous leave entitlement from 25 days up to 32 days based on length of service (Continuous service). Southend-on-Sea City Council also offer a range of flexible working and family-friendly leave.*We also offer paid time off to allow employees to undertake volunteering activities*Here at Southend-on-Sea City Council we also offer our employees free access to a benefit portal that provides access to wellbeing support and a range of salary sacrifice schemes to help spread the cost of items, including:

• Bicycles, cars, electronics and gym membership.
• The portal also provides access to a range of discounts on products and services including retail, food shopping, travel, dining out and leisure activities.

What you need to do now
If you are interested in this role, please click 'apply online' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. To request a copy of the Job Description/Person Specification for this role, please contact Nathalie via email
Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above, so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.

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