Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Adolescent Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Guildford, Surrey.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £52,625 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 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 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.
Benefits Surrey Offer:
* A competitive relocation package
* We pay your Social Worker England Registration fee
* 28 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years' service (plus bank holidays)
* Access to our car lease scheme
* Opportunity to join our competitive local government pension scheme
* Family and lifestyle discounts via Surrey Extra (discounts on everyday shopping with shopping cards and vouchers for Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer, Primark and many more high street retailers. Plus voucher codes, cinema tickets and reward points, holiday offers and weekend breakaways, and lots more!)
* Smart Employee Eyecare - free eye test and if required a free pair of discounted glasses, with no up-front costs to you!
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme – which offers advice, support and helpful information on personal, family, work, financial, legal and health issues, plus one to one counselling with 6 free counselling sessions.
* Fostering and adoption support.
Requirements of this Team Manager job:
* 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.
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