Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Fostering Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this Team Manager job is up to £64,180 per annum.
Main duties:
- The Team Manager is to lead a team of Social Workers and Senior Practitioners in the delivery of a high-quality service to achieve improved outcomes for children and young people by ensuring assessments, annual reviews, planning and provision of services are delivered based on professional, evidence-based knowledge.
- To ensure that carers protect children and young people who are in need of protection from abuse, neglect, exploitation and/or significant harm and they are kept safe.
- To ensure that Foster Carers, supported lodgings providers and planning for permanence in alternative arrangements are suitable to improve outcomes for the children and young people.
- To ensure that National Minimum Standards are exceeded in relation to meeting the needs of children in placement.
- To be proficient and abide by the Safeguarding policy and practice of the organisation, attend strategy meetings and undertake complaints and allegation investigations.
- To support consultation processes with Foster Carers and children placed in foster care and other alternative care arrangements.
- To effectively assess, identify and manage risk and ensure that safer care plans, risk assessments and timely interventions for children and young people are in place to stabilise the fostering arrangement.
- To prepare and present written and verbal reports on children and foster carers where appropriate.
- To promote a culture of professional curiosity embracing research within your area of responsibility, encouraging the exploration of different cultures, concepts and ideas.
- To be responsible for caseload management within the team, ensuring that staff salaries and expenses remain within budget.
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 Zehnn Young; 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.
