Our client, Gloucestershire County Council, is looking for a Childrens Team Manager to join their Children & Families teams.
About the Job:
1. To lead, manage and be accountable for a team of social workers and other professionals in the delivery of statutory duties to children, young people and families.
2. Lead and provide day to day management of the team, providing appropriate support, personal development review and performance management to ensure the delivery of high quality services, the safety and well-being of the staff and effective use of resources.
3. Develop a clear team plan which links the strategic objectives of the organisation, local improvements in performance and learning from complaints.
4. Provide monthly supervision which is reflective but provides clear direction and challenge and prevent drift and delay in the child's journey.
5. Provide management oversight on all cases which evidences understanding of risk.
6. Quality assure the work of the team by a range of means including case file audit, DIP sampling, observations, and reflective supervision, and any other means as outlined in the quality assurance framework, and contribute to further developments of the framework.
7. Manage effectively the workflow within social work case loads to ensure that children and young people's needs are met appropriately within a timely manner.
8. To have management oversight on strategy...