Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the First Response Team to work full time based in Hillingdon.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,102per annum.
Main duties:
- To lead, motivate, nurture and manage a team of social work professionals, ensuring that the service provided is of a good quality, is effective and delivers positive outcomes.
- To use regular supervision and performance management tools to manage team performance and quality assurance, resources and budgets in collaboration with colleagues and key stakeholders.
- To be accountable for the practice and development of team members and ensure effective practice supervision and performance appraisals are conducted.
- To support, mentor and coach team members to enhance the quality of practice.
- Model and promote the social work role, using critical reflective skills in management and supervision to enhance team practice.
- Effectively manage operational resources, including scheduling of employees and absence management.
- Ensure caseloads are allocated and managed within agreed departmental levels.
- Contribute to the delivery of all department service and team performance plans.
- Ensure all agreed Safeguarding procedures are in place, including adherence to the Local Safeguarding Board’s Safer Recruiting policy.
- Facilitate the effective communication of key council and departmental messages across the service.
- Promote and ensure team knowledge of the Professional Capabilities Framework.
- To maintain and develop key relationships and networks with colleagues, partnership agencies and other stakeholders.
- To represent the council at court and provide expert advice and support to social work employees as required.
- Maintain a safe working environment, meeting the obligations of the Health & Safety at Work Act and other key legislation. Maintain knowledge of the council’s Health & Safety management system requirements and conducting risk assessments and maintaining records as required.
- Utilise key systems and tools including; Protocol, Oracle Financials, HR Self-Service, MyFirstCare absence management, H&S risk assessment and incident reporting.
Requirements of a Team Manager:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- HCPC Registered.
- Demonstrable high-level of social practice combined with extensive practice supervision of other social workers which should be relevant to the Service area.
- To be flexible and travel as required by the needs of the service.
- Meets the Social Work Manager standards outlined in the Advanced Level Professional Capabilities of the PCF.
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.
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