Team Manager - Family Support & Child Protection Team - Welling - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Welling; Vor Ort; EUR 61.000 - 73.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A social care recruitment agency is seeking a Team Manager for the Family Support & Child Protection Team. The role involves managing a team, ensuring compliance with child protection laws, and providing specialist social work knowledge. Candidates should have a Social Work Qualification and management experience. This position offers a competitive salary up to £63,042 per annum.

Qualifikationen

• A social work qualification or equivalent required.
• Experience in a management role is essential.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is necessary.
• Social Work England registration is required.
• Experience within Adult Social Work is beneficial.

Aufgaben

• Support the Signs of Safety practice model.
• Oversee management and performance compliance with laws.
• Provide social work and child protection knowledge to the team.
• Liaise with multi-agency partners for support.
• Chair various meetings as required.

Kenntnisse

Management experience

Knowledge of child protection laws

Interpersonal skills

Networking and coordination

Ausbildung

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Team Manager – Family Support & Child Protection Team

Sanctuary Personnel has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Family Support & Child Protection Team to work full time based in Bexley.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £63,042 per annum.

• To have experience with, or a willingness to be trained and learn, the Signs of Safety practice model and support this approach in all aspects of the work carried out by the team.
• To have previous management or supervisory responsibility of other practitioners working within children and families services, including the Leaving Care service. To contribute to the development and implementation of local policies and service improvement strategies and support their implementation within the team and service.
• To provide specialist social work and child protection knowledge and advice to the team, service, and other multi-agency professionals that helps them better understand the diverse experiences of the young adults leaving care with whom we work.
• To liaise, network, influence and coordinate with other multi-agency partners to provide the best level of multi-disciplinary support to young adults leaving care and where appropriate their children.
• To ensure that timely response and action is carried out by the team to any contacts, referrals, allocations, complaints, information requests, child protection enquiries, court directives received, and plans for children.
• To ensure the practice and management oversight of all work and performance in the team is compliant with relevant laws, statutory guidance, and local procedures that govern children’s safeguarding, adult safeguarding, the social work profession, health and safety, employment law, human rights, and data protection.
• To maintain regular supervision and appraisal of worker performance in the team that includes case management oversight, timely decision making, the effective implementation of pathway plans, reflective space, respectful challenge, recognising areas of good and bad practice and supports the ongoing learning and development of workers.
• To chair strategy, review, planning, professional, and network meetings as required.
• Other duties as required necessary to carry out the smooth functioning of the service and to meet our corporate parenting and safeguarding responsibilities to children.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Experience within a management role
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.
• Experience within Adult Social Work.

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please apply now.

Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

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.