Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Leader within the Adult Social Work Team to work full time based in West Berkshire.
The salary for this permanent Team Leader job is up to £45,441 per annum.
Main duties:
- To effectively manage the day-to-day work of the team.
- To provide cover for other Team Leaders as needed.
- To carry out supervisory and management functions as needed.
- To work with others to develop and maximise the benefits of links with services provided in the NHS, voluntary and private sectors to ensure that customers receive the best possible support at the earliest stage.
- To ensure continued professional development record is maintained.
- To develop professional networks to achieve your personal work objectives.
- To contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of the service plan and continuous of the service, including systems for following up calls.
- Work with teams to adapt to changing circumstances and provide innovative services that meet needs of customers.
- Ensure that staff receive full induction, and provide regular supervision and support, and an annual appraisal to team members.
- Effectively manage the performance of staff including monitoring absence, by implementing council policies and procedures – especially those relating to Safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act.
- To ensure that all staff are offered opportunities, relevant to their role, for ongoing training and development.
- To ensure that the teams use resources effectively by making appropriate judgements regarding the provision of information, advice, dealing with simple short-term interventions and referring to other teams.
- To recognise health and safety is a responsibility of every employee, to take reasonable care of self and others to comply with the WBC Health and Safety policy and any service-specific procedures/rules that apply to this role.
- Ensure that data about performance is regularly and robustly reviewed to support continuous improvement.
Benefits:
- Flexible working wherever possible between the hours of 07.00-19.00
- Hybrid working wherever possible working 40% in the office
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities
- Generous Local Government pension scheme
- Family friendly policies
- A range of local discounts
- Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistance Programme and employee benefits
- You will also be entitled to a generous annual leave entitlement starting at 29 days per annum (plus public holidays) Rising by an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service.
Requirements of this Team Leader role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Team Leader 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.
