Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team to work full time based in Redhill, Surrey.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £55,625 per annum.
Main duties:
* Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
* Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory, and legislation to enhance practice, procedures, and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
* Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
* Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
* Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
* Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk-taking situations.
* Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
* Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
* Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction, and development.
* Provide professional support, advice, and/or supervision.
* Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
* Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.
* Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary, and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
* Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management that arise.
* Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.
* When required, monitor, analyse, and manage delegated budgets, funding, and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.
Requirements of this role:
* Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
* Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
* Experience of community and/or group work.
* Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.
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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