At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to provide high-quality safeguarding and family support services.
- Company: Sanctuary Personnel, a diverse and innovative recruitment agency.
- Benefits: Competitive salary up to £60,285, professional development, and supportive work culture.
- Other info: Join a company that values diversity and promotes equality in the workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the lives of children and families while leading a passionate team.
- Qualifications: Social Work Degree or equivalent, with strong leadership and performance management skills.
The predicted salary is between 60285 - 60285 £ per year.
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Safeguarding & Family Support Team to work full time based in Slough. The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £60,285 per annum.
Main duties:
- Lead the team providing appropriate support/challenge to ensure the delivery of high-quality services, accurate and timely case file records and effective use of resources to statutory/legislative requirements.
- Oversee the distribution of caseloads to ensure the child/young person's needs are met.
- Make clear decisions around threshold ensuring risk is evaluated and decision recorded on case files.
- Carry out regular quality assurance including observations, case reviews, team and peer moderated audits.
- Use all available performance information/audit outcomes to efficiently manage the team.
- Create, implement and monitor a team plan which links to service/strategic objectives.
- Be responsible for tackling under-performance and performance issues, sickness absence, conduct and grievances as required.
- As part of Quality Assurance activities, ensure there is effective direct work undertaken with all children and young people with the voice of the child clearly recorded on case files.
- Support all members of the team to actively seek the views of children and families to inform practice in individual cases and use this feedback to shape the team, its learning and feed into the overall strategic direction of SCF.
- Lead team meetings to a high standard, ensuring service and corporate messages are cascaded to the team in a timely way and supporting effective two-way communication from the team.
- Ensure all members of the team have the capacity to attend training to support their ongoing professional development and enable continuous improvements in practice.
- Maintain own professional development and keep up to date with changes in national, regional and local policy initiatives that will impact on the delivery of services and respond accordingly.
- Manage the complaints relating to the team effectively and to a high standard in line with SCF complaints procedure.
- Ensure the effective deployment, monitoring and management of delegated budgets, whilst maintaining an awareness of the implications of decision on SCF's budget.
- Represent SCF's values, leading by example in the delivery of these and setting a positive culture within your team, service and SCF; challenge behaviour when it is not aligned with our values and take appropriate action; support a professional in a respectful and child-focused environment which supports SCF's vision.
- Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework.
- Deputise for the HoS, undertake projects and other additional duties, as required.
- Undertake work outside office hours as necessary.
Requirements of this Team Manager job:
- A social Work Degree or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Ability to engage, coach and motivate teams and set clear targets and expectations.
- Experience of successfully managing performance and providing clear constructive feedback.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
This Team Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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 role 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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