Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews, has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based in Northampton.
Team/Specialism: Safeguarding
Salary: £54,082.00 - £58,327.00 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Benefits:
* Highly competitive salaries
* £2,200 Welcome bonus
* Retention bonus
* Social Work England registration costs
* Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time, and job share
* Monthly high-quality supervision
* Up to 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)
* Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
* Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme
* Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
* Employee discount schemes
* Up to £8,000 relocation allowance
* Signs of Safety training
* An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities
* Heavily subsidised city centre parking
* Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO
Duties:
* Providing a quality, peripatetic service to the full spectrum of practice areas
* Be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads, managing a talented team of Senior Social Workers across multiple service areas, ensuring that the care of the child remains paramount
* Be responsible for recruiting and growing this Peripatetic Service, alongside your Management Team, ensuring their continuous development through quality supervision
* Have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved
Requirements of the Team Manager:
* Be a qualified Social Worker, with current Social Work England registration, and ideally with a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification or equivalent relevant experience
* Have experience and knowledge across a range of social work teams and services and demonstrably transferrable skills
* A strong, resilient Social Work Team Manager with a breadth of experience, looking for a new, unique, and exciting opportunity
* Be a highly competent and skilled people manager, incredibly organised and able to multi-task
* With strong emotional intelligence, patience, and resilience, you will have the ability to manage a highly capable Senior Social Worker team and ensure development and performance issues are addressed through support and coaching
* Have had previous budgetary control experience, ICT skills, and the ability to represent the service at a more senior level if required
Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service, or Director.
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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