Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Assessment & Intervention Team to work full time based in Merton.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £61,475 per annum.
Main duties:
- Under the direction of the Service Manager to organise and delegated the workload of the team and provide decision-making, direction, monitoring, professional development and professional supervision of support staff, newly qualified and student/trainee social workers and social workers to ensure high quality of social work practice and interventions for children, young people and families.
- To provide decision-making, direction, support, reflection, professional challenge and containment to the team in situations of high complexity ensuring a high standard of service delivery. Support the Service Manager in managing a current an reliable record of allocation, assurance in service provision and ensuring a high standard of service delivery.
- To improve the quality of social work interventions through: undertaking case file audits and ensuring learning from audit activity is implemented into social work practice: and, formal observations of practice a year on people they supervise.
- To assist the Service Manager In the induction and supervision of team members. To ensure that equal opportunities and health and safety policies are fully integrated into the daily working of the team.
- Working within a multi-disciplinary context, to develop effective working partnerships with other agencies and services involved to ensure that positive outcomes are achieved in all key areas of children and young people’s lives.
- Contribute as required to training, work on professionals standards, review and inspect cases and services and contribute to planning or project work for the development of the service, when necessary providing direct support to individual service users. To assist the Service Manager in the management of complaints, representations and appeals in line with service area protocols.
- To provide the Service Manager with accurate information and assist the Service Manager with establishing, maintaining and utilising information systems to ensure best practice as part of a robust quality assurance system and to inform performance and budget management of the team and organisation.
- Ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons, and to comply with policies and procedures relating to health and safety within the department.
- Carry out other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.
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 Team Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.
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