Assistant Team Manager

Brackenberry; Swindon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in Swindon is seeking an Assistant Team Manager for a 4-month contract to lead a team in delivering high-quality social work interventions. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in social work, relevant post-qualification experience, and must be a registered practitioner. Responsibilities include supervising social workers, ensuring safeguarding practices, and leading effective service delivery. Immediate availability is essential.

Qualifications

• Registered Social Work Practitioner with Social Work England.
• Demonstrable evidence of leadership within a managerial role.
• Significant experience in a front-line Social Work setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a professional team focused on high-quality service delivery.
• Ensure effective safeguarding and risk management processes.
• Undertake regular case file audits and promote continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership skills

Social Work practice

Safeguarding practices

Risk management

Education

Diploma or Degree in a relevant area

Post Graduate qualification

Job description

We are working closely alongside with a local authority in Swindon to assist with the appointment of a Assistant Team Manager on a 4-months contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £34.30- £46.53 per hour

Summary:

The Assistant Team Manager (ATM) within the Children with Disabilities (CWD) service plays a pivotal role in operational leadership, responsible for managing and supervising a team of professional social workers and support staff. The ATM is instrumental in delivering and improving high-quality social work interventions to children, young people, and their families, ensuring effective safeguarding practice is paramount. You will be a champion of Social Work values, focusing on outcomes that keep children safe and, where possible, within their family networks, all while operating within statutory guidelines and allocated budgetary limits.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a professional, skilled team to provide a high-performing, outcomes-driven service, ensuring effective safeguarding is paramount.
• Ensure supervision is frequent, reflective, challenging, and explorative, promoting professional curiosity and solution-focused approaches to inform complex judgments based on the best evidence from research.
• Ensure team members accurately record all casework, assessments, analysis, decisions, and care planning onICS systems, signing off all critical decisions and discussing issues that require further scrutiny.
• Ensure effective assessment, risk management, child protection, and care planning processes are in place to protect the most vulnerable CWD children and their families.
• Ensure team practice is confident in child care practice and family law, using power and authority effectively and taking proportionate action to safeguard children, especially when faced with resistant behaviours to change in families.
• Ensure the team understands and adheres to the Quality Assurance Framework, including undertaking regular case file audits and evidencing continuous improvement informed by national and regional practice.
• Ensure diversity is respected and taken into account in decision-making and service delivery, addressing discriminatory issues of language, gender, ethnicity, religion, ability, sexuality, and social background.

Essentials:

• Diploma or Degree Level Qualification in a relevant area (e.g., Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent).
• Post Graduate qualification in the field of practice (essential).
• Registered Social Work Practitioner with Social Work England (SWE) (essential).
• Qualification in, or working towards, Leadership/Management.
• Demonstrable evidence of leadership skills within a managerial role in a Social Work setting.
• Significant post-qualification experience and evidence of practice in a front-line Social Work setting, preferably within CWD or related complex children's services.
• Detailed, current knowledge of all primary legislation and policy relevant to Childrens Social Care (including relevant CWD-specific legislation and guidance).

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K
• This role requires an Enhanced DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.