Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Family Drug & Alcohol Court Team to work Full Time for based in Northamptonshire.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £59,827 per annum.
Main duties:
- To lead, manage and direct that the day-to-day operation of children’s social care teams, comprising qualified social workers and family support staff. This involves allocation of work and prioritizing workload across teams, taking care related decisions in accordance with the scheme of delegated authority for children’s social care services.
- To recruit, supervise, appraise, and develop staff in line with Trust’s requirements and in accordance with the statutory requirements for the relevant service area, to ensure that staff the relevant skills, knowledge, and training to provide an efficient and effective service.
- To manage budgets to ensure efficient and effective use of resources, capturing patterns of expenditure to inform budget planning and setting within the Directorate.
- To develop and maintain partnership and multi-agency working, to ensure that services and agencies work together effectively to assess risk and respond to identified need to safeguard children and to promote effective information sharing with partner agencies.
- To develop and write the team plan which ensures that the relevant service contributes to meeting the objectives and performance targets set within the Children and Young People’s Directorate’s Service Plan and the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership’s Children and Young People’s Plan, to ensure that an efficient and effective service is provided.
- To secure service improvements through effective audit, quality assurance, management of data systems, performance management of staff and timely management of complaints in accordance with the Council’s statements of required practice and external regulation and inspection.
- To ensure that health and safety requirements are met in relation to the relevant team and service location.
- To carry out any 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, including deputizing for their line manager and representing the service as appropriate on internal and external projects and leading on those initiatives where appropriate to the role.
- This job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the post holder and identifies a level of responsibility at which they will be required to work. In the interests of effective working the major tasks may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changing needs and circumstances.
Requirements of this Team Manager 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 Manager role is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.
