Team Manager - Safeguarding & Family Support Team in Slough

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.

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.