Team Manager - Family Safeguarding Team - Wandsworth - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Wandsworth; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Team Manager within the Family Safeguarding Team to work full-time in Wandsworth. The role includes leading a team, ensuring high practice standards, and contributing to the continuous improvement of services for children and young people. Successful candidates must have a social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The salary for this position is up to £56,470 per annum.

Qualifications

• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Responsibilities

• Keep knowledge up to date with local and national changes.
• Lead strategy and policy development related to social work.
• Manage the team's performance and workload allocation.

Education

A social work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Family Safeguarding Team to work full-time based in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £56,470 per annum.

Responsibilities:

• To keep knowledge up to date of changing contexts at local and national level, and take account of these in social work practice; modelling the social work role and contributing to the public face of the organisation.
• Lead the development and implementation of innovative ways of working, taking into account research and experience from own and other services.
• To promote and, where appropriate, lead the development of strategy/services/policies for specialist field; initiate and undertake research in own field.
• Work with the organisation to ensure that the Standards for Employers of Social Workers and Supervision Framework is embedded across the service to maintain high standards of social work practice.
• To contribute to the continuous improvement of the services for children and young people in Wandsworth.
• Adhere to security controls and requirements as mandated by the SSA’s policies, procedures and local risk assessments to maintain confidentiality, integrity, availability and legal compliance of information and systems.
• To promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity protocol/policy and working to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected.
• To manage a team of staff; including recruitment/retention, induction, training and development, performance management, disciplinary/capability, and succession planning.
• Manage the delivery and performance of the Team; to ensure that all work with families is assessed, prioritised and actioned appropriately; to ensure that all children and their families receive a suitable response that meets their assessed needs.
• To manage the allocation of workload across the team to agreed service priorities; actively monitor, review, and authorise case records and plans; addressing any workload management, performance, and/or quality issues as they arise.

Requirements:

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from diverse backgrounds. We are proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role.

We take great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, we are best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.

Sanctuary Personnel is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity.