Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Work Team Manager within the Adult Locality Team to work full time based in Surrey.
The salary for this permanent Social Work Team Manager job is up to £63,755 per annum.
Main duties:
- Lead, direct and manage the service delivery of a team and ensure that all cases including complex and high risk are progressed in line with quality, national and legislative standards.
- Lead, motivate and develop individuals using a coaching approach to better meet current and future requirements of the service.
- Ensure that team plans are developed to reflect wider service plans and strategies and that the necessary resources are in place to deliver an effective and high quality service.
- Review the operations of the team to identify improvements in systems, processes, procedures and working methods, and propose changes to secure greater efficiency and compliance.
- Ensure performance throughput targets and key performance indicators are achieved by promoting quality standards, maintaining and monitoring systems to collate performance information and taking appropriate action as necessary.
- Establish effective local working relationships and joint working arrangements with partners to develop collaborative services and partnership arrangements.
- Implement and maintain effective robust communication between team members, the wider directorate, partner agencies, service users and carers to ensure a person-centred service that continuously improves.
- Plan, control and monitor allocation and use of allocated budget/resources/funding effectively to ensure maximum value is delivered.
- Ensure appropriate assessment and management of risk, maintaining and implementing operational arrangements to respond to civil emergencies and preparing and updating business continuity plans to ensure continued service delivery in the event of a major incident.
- Investigate concerns, complaints, critical incidents and safeguarding concerns, adhering to procedures and taking the appropriate action.
Requirements of this role:
- Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
- Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
- Experience of community and/or group work.
- Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Social Work Team Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.
