Team Manager Leaving Care Team - Permanent

Your new role Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent Leaving Care experienced Team Manager. The successful candidate will manage and support a team of Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, Children & Families Workers. They will help with the provision of services to children and young people that are predominately leaving care. Ensuring that child protection enquiries, assessments and support services are consistently completed to a high standard. Ensuring consistent interpretation of eligibility criteria and risk thresholds within the service, implementing service strategy and performance management processes & ensuring the team's contribution to the overall departmental and council objectives.Provide formal, professional supervision to staff, ensuring that appraisals are undertaken, identifying skills gaps or training needs. Constantly review the performance of the team to ensure that the team embeds a culture of continuous improvement.Ensure that the Council provides a first-class professional service within the social work team, by being responsible for the efficient and cost-effective provision of needs-led services to children, young people and their families. Other responsibilities Keep apprised of the changing contexts, research, practice theories and statutory procedures that govern work with children looked after and young people leaving care, at the local and national level, and to implement these within the team. Contribute to the development and implementation of local policies and service improvement strategies and support their implementation within the team and service. Liaise, network, influence, and coordinate with other multi-agency partners to provide the best level of multidisciplinary support for children looked after. Represent the local authority in a professional and competent manner, especially when making representations in court, with families, or with other agencies. Ensure the practice and management oversight of all work and performance in the team is compliant with relevant laws, statutory guidance, and local procedures that govern children's safeguarding, adult safeguarding, the social work profession, health and safety employment law, human rights, and data protection Chair strategy, review, planning, professional, and network meetings as required. <...