Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Leaving Care 16+ Team to work Full Time based in Waltham Forest.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £61,676 per annum.
Main duties:
* Lead, manage and motivate a staff team ensuring high quality supervision is completed regularly which includes case management oversight, timely decision making, the effective implementation and review of children’s looked after plans and care experienced young people’s pathway plans.
* Use opportunities to reflect and recognize areas of practice that are good or require improvement, supporting the ongoing learning and development of workers, including undertaking audits across the whole of children’s service and within the local service.
* Allocate cases within the statutory timescales supporting positive transitions and ensuring looked after children reviews and pathway plan reviews and statutory visits have clear objectives and outcomes to ensure that all children in care and care leavers receive a service that reflects the Council’s commitment to safeguarding, promoting independence and putting the needs of individual children first.
* Complete and review performance development plans for the team which enhance individuals' personal and professional development needs and contribute towards staff retention.
* Effectively use available team performance data to monitor standards and performance and ensure compliance with practice standards and procedures.
* Provide high quality reflective case supervision to social workers and personal advisors within timescale, that clearly provides management oversight, appropriate professional challenge and supports the progression of children and young people’s plans.
* Contribute to the management of the staffing budget for the team by approving and committing expenditure within your delegated authority, and monitoring and reporting commitments to ensure the budget is not exceeded.
* Implement Signs of Safety practice and consistently use the Signs of Safety practice model in interventions with children, young people and their carers/families, and within supervision discussions.
* At the discretion of the Head of Service, undertake such other activities as may from time to time be agreed consistent with the nature of the job described above.
Requirements of this Team Manager role:
* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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 has significantly contributed to previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards and 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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