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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA 

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker 

Salary: £49,221 - £53,826 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 3rd February 2026

Interview Date(s): 12^th February 2026

Are you a highly experienced practitioner, who is looking for a new and exciting role? Do you have substantial knowledge of the Public Law Outline? Are you driven to ensure children receive outstanding services and in a timely way? Do you enjoy the analysis of data and applying this to driving forward performance? Do you enjoy working closely with partner agencies, including legal services and the Court? If so this role maybe perfect for you!

About the Role

We are looking to appoint an excellent social work qualified professional to the role of Case Progression Manager with responsibility for improving our services to children families involved in Public Law Outline (PLO) including pre-proceedings and care proceedings.

We are seeking a highly experienced manager with a strong track record of working in statutory safeguarding services to children, young people, and their families. As the Case Progression Manager, you will need to have extensive knowledge, experience and understanding of safeguarding legislation and procedures including the Public Law Outline. In addition, you will need experience of ensuring the progress of cases are effectively tracked with performance management and quality assurance systems that are in place. 

The key aim of the post is to help secure the best outcomes for vulnerable children by driving best practice in all case work leading to Court proceedings regarding children and their families.  The postholder will ensure that all pre and care proceedings work is fully monitored and progressed to secure efficient, effective, economic, high quality child focussed service delivery within timescales.  

You will work with social workers, managers at all levels, the local authority legal department, and with partners across the Family Justice System; driving improvement and ensuring outstanding service delivery. You will report directly to the Head of Service – Family Safeguarding and Disabled Children Service.

An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement

• Professional Social Work Qualification and Social Work registration
• Substantial experience of managing children’s social care services
• Significant experience of strategic thinking at a senior level.
• Excellent safeguarding knowledge and best practice and knowledge of current legislative requirements, governance and relevant policies and procedures associated with the areas identified above.
• Experience of working with local authority senior managers, Members or in a political environment.
• Evidence of high levels of skill in data analysis, reporting, and reporting to senior managers and partner agencies  
• Successful track record of planning, managing and delivering, projects in time and on budget, securing organisational efficiencies where possible.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Hayley Binley – Head of Service, Family Safeguarding and Disabled Children’s Service

Telephone: 0116 3057566

To contact me by email please click here

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support. 

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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