Adult Social Work Assistant Team Manager - Locality Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Arnold; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Adult Social Work Assistant Team Manager to join the Locality Team in Surrey. This role involves providing professional leadership, supporting colleagues in complex situations, and enhancing practice through evidence-informed methods. The ideal candidate will hold a relevant social work qualification and be Social Work England registered. This full-time position offers a salary of up to £52,625 per annum.

Qualifications

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent is essential.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is required.
• Social Work England registration is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support in complex situations.
• Model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Manage a defined team, providing clear organisation and direction.
• Contribute to professional leadership of organisational change.

Skills

Leadership

Critical reasoning

Professional support

Risk management

Collaboration

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Social Work England registration

Job description

Adult Social Work Assistant Team Manager - Locality Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Adult Social Work Assistant Team Manager within the Locality Team to work full time based in Surrey.

The salary for this permanent Assistant Team Manager job is up to £52,625 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
• Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
• Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
• Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support to develop these skills.
• Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.
• Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
• Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
• Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
• Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
• Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
• Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.
• Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
• Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
• Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.
• When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.

Requirements

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact

This Assistant Team Manager is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients\' requirements.

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. We will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.