Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Group Manager within the Multi-Disciplinary Team to work full time based in Medway.
The salary for this permanent Group Manager job is packaged up to £63,524 per annum.
Main duties:
- Provide quality leadership and management you will ensure delivery of effective and efficient in your designated areas of responsibility.
- Effectively manage the performance of Team Managers ensuring required standards are met, continuous development and improvement is demonstrated and practice that falls below the expected standard is managed.
- Via a highly motivated and focussed team you will robustly review practice within your team ensuring compliance with legislation, government policy initiatives, guidance and practice standards aimed at safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and their families.
- Ensure agreed service performance targets are met and plans are in place to bring about continuous development and improvement in your designated area of responsibility as necessary.
- As a service ambassador you will demonstrate yourself to be a highly motivated, focussed professional who engages positively and co-operatively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Establish, maintain and proactively develop opportunities for positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders in all areas of work aimed at safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and their families. This will be achieved by successfully representing the Council on internal and external operational and strategic groups, enhancing partnership working, empowering service users, practice and service development and contributing to business plans and strategies.
- Identify service requirments, priorities and respond to changing demands, make certain services are well organised and the allocation and effective prioritisation of resources within the budgetary provision available.
- Provide professional line management support, supervision and direction to staff in accordance with Council policy to Team Managers and ensure individual performance appraisals are carried out in accordance with Council policy and that the training and development needs of individuals and the team are identified and catered for.
- Use expert professional knowledge to offer advice and support to service staff and internal and external stakeholders at all levels in the organisations structure including elected members and the Director of Children Services; make decisions to determine the progression of cases including those that are complex and high risk.
- Prepare reports, discussion documents as required relating to your designated area of responsibility relating to service delivery, developments, performance, practice matters or any other areas relevant to your role.
Requirements of this Group Manager job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Group Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.
