Team Manager / Advanced Social Worker
Team: Child In Care
Location: Jersey
Rate: £54 per hour
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Hours: 37 per week
Social Personnel are recruiting for an Advanced Social Worker (Manager) to join the Child In Care Team in Jersey.
The Advanced Social Worker (Manager) will play a key leadership role within the Children In Care Team, supporting practitioners to deliver effective relationship-based interventions, care planning and positive permanence outcomes for children and young people.
Duties Include:
- Provide professional supervision, reflective practice discussions, and management oversight to social work staff.
- Monitor and support the quality of assessments, care planning, permanence planning, and interventions for children in care.
- Lead on complex case consultations and support decision-making in high-risk or challenging situations.
- Chair complex meetings and reviews, ensuring effective multi-agency planning and accountability.
- Support workforce development through coaching, mentoring, induction, and practice leadership activities.
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, policies, procedures, and professional standards.
- Contribute to service performance monitoring, quality assurance, and continuous improvement activities.
- Provide delegated management support and operational leadership, including responding to safeguarding concerns and urgent service demands.
- Work collaboratively with partner agencies to promote positive outcomes, stability, and permanence for children and young people.
- Provide management oversight and professional supervision to social workers and other team members.
- Support the day-to-day operational management of the Children in Care Team, ensuring effective service delivery and decision-making.
- Lead and oversee complex casework, providing guidance and challenge where required.
- Chair and contribute to multi-agency meetings, reviews, and planning forums for children and young people.
- Coach, mentor, and support practitioners to develop and maintain high standards of practice.
- Promote excellent safeguarding practice, effective risk management, and child-centred decision-making.
- Act as a delegated manager, providing leadership and management cover as required.
Essential Criteria:
- A minimum of 5 years' experience within a Children in Care service, managing complex children in care cases, including care planning, permanence planning, statutory responsibilities, and court-related work.
- Experience of providing reflective supervision, mentoring, coaching, or practice leadership to social workers within a statutory children's services team, preferably children in care team.
- Strong knowledge and application of relevant legislation, safeguarding practice, care planning, permanence planning, corporate parenting responsibilities, and risk assessment and management.
Why Social Personnel?
- Dedicated and experienced consultant
- Free DBS
- £250 Referral Bonus
- £250 Find your own job bonus
Team Manager- Child In Care - Jersey employer: Diverse Recruitment Group Careers
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Contact Details:
Diverse Recruitment Group Careers Recruitment Team
