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 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 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 issues 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.
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