Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children with Disabilities Team to work full time for Barking & Dagenham.
The salary for this Team Manager job is up to £64,739 per annum.
Main duties:
- To be a member of the local CYPD Management Team to provide support to the Service Manager and to participate as representatives of the Council as required in other structures established for multi-agency working.
- Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational policy and procedures and provide practice guidance, making use of legislation, national guidelines and research to ensure that the highest standards are achieved and maintained.
- Support all members of the team by ensuring regular supervision, appraisal and communication on an individual and team basis to ensure an informed and professional approach to service delivery and an awareness of the changing national and local demands and priorities by the implementation of appropriate performance review mechanisms.
- Promote evidence-based practice in the team and to manage, monitor and ensure the effective delivery of the service.
- To be strategic lead for all safeguarding and child protection issues raised by the team and ensure cases are appropriately escalated and all staff safeguarding training is regularly updated.
- To have an extensive working knowledge of local service provision and to act as first point of contact for families, signposting as appropriate.
- To allocate and provide detailed management oversight on new or stepped down referrals. To oversee the community work and early help assessments aimed at intervening early to support families to care for their children.
- To be responsible, with the Service Manager, for the recruitment needs of the team including advertising, shortlisting and interviewing prospective candidates.
- To develop effective working partnerships across the council and with key strategic partners.
- To take day-to-day responsibility for ensuring the maintenance, security and effective supervision of the centre buildings, their contents and of the centre grounds.
- The post holder may be required to attend to some responsibilities outside normal working hours.
Requirements of this Team Manager job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.
