Team Manager, Children Looked After Team

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children Looked After Team to work Full Time based in Southend.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager role is up to £58,959 per annum.

Main duties:

• To manage the social work team, to be responsible for the provision of services to children and young people, ensuring that child protection enquiries, assessment & support services are consistently completed to a high-standard.
• To ensure consistent interpretation of eligibility criteria and risk thresholds within the service.
• To implement service strategy & performance management processes & ensure teams contribution to the overall departmental and council objectives.
• To provide formal, professional supervision to staff, ensuring that appraisals are undertaken, identifying skills gasps or training needs, and endeavouring to provide for these.
• Monitor & reports on the team's performance, standards and quality of work to ensure that the Council complies with policy, procedures and professional standards. Constantly reviewing the performance of the team to ensure that the team embeds a culture of continuous improvement.
• Support staff to formulate, agree and monitor care plans for children & young people in need, looked after or in need of protection.
• Developing effective liaison within the department, other agencies and partner organisations, collating and analysing presenting information and ensuring opportunities are taken forward and tackling appropriately areas of difficulties.
• Attending and representing the Council in legal proceedings.
• Actively manage representations and complaints and refer to appropriate level if unable to resolve.
• To oversee budget allocation for the team to plan expenditure follow financial procedures and ensure that expenditure is kept within the available budget.
• To be familiar with Equal Opportunities good practice and the Council requirements for diversity and to implement this in all aspects of working practice and promote it in the team, workplace and wider organisation.
• Provide information, reports and analysis as and when required.
• To effectively chair a variety of meetings, conferences and reviews as and when required.
• Deputise for the Service Manager as and when required.

Requirements of this Team Manager Job.

• Degree or Equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Post Qualifying Social Work Experience.

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.