Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children in Care Team to work full time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £52,859 per annum.
Main duties:
- As a member of Herefordshire Children’s Services management team, lead the team providing appropriate support and challenge to ensure the delivery of high quality services, accurate and timely case file records and the effective use of resources to statutory and legislative requirements.
- To oversee the distribution of caseloads to ensure that the child or young person’s needs are met appropriately.
- Carry out regular quality assurance activities including observations, case reviews, team and peer moderated audits that collaboratively involve social work staff to support their professional development, improve the consistently of practice and seek the views of families.
- Ensure that in all aspects of work that we listen to children and young people and children are at the centre of everything we do.
- Use all available performance information and audit outcomes to efficiently manage your team, translating this information in a meaningful way so that all members of the team understand what it is saying and what they need to do.
- Attend Head of Service Performance clinics with a clear narrative for performance in their team and actions to be undertaken to address for development.
- Attend and quality assure reports for panels to ensure care planning around permanency, cost and resources are reviewed, ratified and measured to the needs of children and families.
- Responsible for the regular and effective appraisal of staff performance through an appraisal process in order to provide clear direction and challenge to prevent drift and delay.
- Directly supervise the Senior Social Workers and Social Workers in the team as per Children’s Services supervision policy.
- As part of Quality Assurance activities, ensure that there is effective direct work undertaken with all children and young people with the voice of the child clearly recorded on case files.
- Lead team meetings to a high standards, ensuring that service and corporate messages are cascaded to the team in a timely way and supporting effective two way communications back up to managers from the team.
- Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc, and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Herefordshire.
Requirements of this Team Manager role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
