Assistant Team Manager - Children with Disabilities

Sanctuary Personnel; Slough; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an Assistant Team Manager for their Children with Disabilities Team based in Slough. This full-time role involves providing leadership, supporting complex cases, and managing a team effectively. Candidates should possess a valid Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The estimated salary for this position is up to £53,587 per annum.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and support in complex cases.
• Monitor and manage performance of team members.
• Ensure adherence to data quality legislation.
• Promote positive relationships across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Critical reasoning

Safeguarding expertise

Collaboration

Coaching

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Assistant Team Manager within the Children with Disabilities Team to work full time based in Slough.

Salary: up to £53,587 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 in response to the presenting needs.
• Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others 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 individuals development and ensure that individuals 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 job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

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

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is 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. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote 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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.