Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Safeguarding Team to work Full Time based in Herefordshire.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £62,859 per annum.
Main duties:
- To manage a team of Social Workers and alternatively qualified practitioners within the team so that children’s needs can be met and they can be brought up safely within their families as part of clear restorative practice.
- To achieve this through the delivery of a coordinated integrated approach to high quality information gathering and analysis resulting in the best possible outcomes for Children and Young People.
- Ensure that the team work together will all relevant agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
- Ensure that competent professional, judgements are made based on sound assessment, planning and provision for the needs of child and young people.
- To complete monthly audits as part of the wider quality assurance framework as well as dip-sampling of the teams work to monitor quality and performance. Support the Service Manager in responding to actions set as a result of audit and quality assurance activity.
- To chair and facilitate meetings commensurate with local and national guidance.
- To understand and implement relevant legislation and guidance, in accordance with the policies and procedures of the directorate.
- To support the Service Manager in ensuring local systems, skills and processes are in place and applied consistently to secure high quality information, data, analysis and report.
- To motivate and assist in the professional development of practitioners within the team, prioritising staff morale, health and wellbeing and attendance at work in your team.
- To support the Service Manager to identify trends and developments in professional work, highlighting the implications for the Directorate, and contribute to the development of policy and promotion of good practice standards in Herefordshire as well as leading on aspects of quality assurance, as directed by Service Managers.
- Provide and ensure consistently high quality risk management and decision making in identifying the most appropriate plans and interventions for children and young people.
- Manage the team establishment and the recruitment and support of team members, ensuring that service provided by the team is of the highest quality and that excellent performance is maintained.
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 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.
