Social Work Team Manager - Safeguarding - Northampton - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Shire Of Northampton; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Social Work Team Manager for a permanent role in Northampton. The successful candidate will manage a team of Senior Social Workers, oversee service delivery, and contribute to improving the children's services. Applicants should be qualified Social Workers with management experience. Excellent benefits include a competitive salary and flexible working options.

Benefits

Highly competitive salaries

Retention bonus

Flexible working practices

Up to 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to £8,000 relocation allowance

Heavily subsidised city centre parking

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration.
• Experience and knowledge across a range of social work services.
• Strong managerial skills and highly organized.

Responsibilities

• Provide a quality peripatetic service across practice areas.
• Allocate and prioritise workloads for Senior Social Workers.
• Recruit and grow the Peripatetic Service with your Management Team.

Skills

People management

Organizational skills

Emotional intelligence

Multi-tasking

Budgetary control

Education

Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration

Level 5 NVQ Management qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000+ reviews has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based inNorthampton.

Team/Specialism:Safeguarding

Contract:Permanent

Hours:Full-time

• Highly competitive salaries
• Retention bonus
• Social Work England registration costs
• Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share
• The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
• Monthly high quality supervision
• Up to 27 day’s 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%
• 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, who will be working across multiple service areas and effectively 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 though 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 Alex Moon; 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.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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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