Children & Families Practice Manager - South Locality Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 54,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Children & Families Practice Manager to lead a passionate team in Milton Keynes. This role involves managing casework for vulnerable children and families, ensuring high-quality support and interventions are delivered effectively. The ideal candidate will possess a social work qualification and a deep understanding of relevant legislation. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to diversity and inclusion, where your leadership will make a real difference in the lives of those in need. If you are ready to take on this rewarding challenge, apply now!

Qualifications

• Qualified social worker with knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Experience in managing teams and casework for vulnerable children.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team ensuring effective casework for vulnerable children and families.
• Manage interventions to support families at risk of needing statutory services.

Skills

Team Leadership

Case Management

Social Work Knowledge

Understanding of Legislation

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

Children & Families Practice Manager - South Locality Team

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
MK4

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Children & Families Practice Manager within the South Locality Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes.

The salary for this permanent Children & Families Practice Manager job is up to £53,465 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. To lead and manage a team of professionals from a range of disciplines, ensuring that casework is allocated and monitored across the team's area of responsibility.
2. With the assistance of a Senior Practitioner, manage a team of practitioners who are the lead professionals to vulnerable children and their families who have been assessed as requiring targeted early help services.
3. Manage and ensure the delivery of a range of interventions to support children, young people, and families in need at risk to live safely within their family and communities wherever possible.
4. Ensure care plans for children and their families are robust and SMART, aiming for cases to progress towards closure or step down to other services by the 20th week.
5. Be responsible alongside the Senior Practitioner for providing supervision and support to ensure practitioners provide the highest quality targeted support to families to prevent needs from escalating and cases from stepping up to statutory services.
6. As a Targeted Early Help Manager, work closely with the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and other managers to be part of a rota system to ensure children who come to the attention of the MASH for early help assistance are signposted and supported with the assistance of an Early Help Advisor.
7. Ensure that assessments, planning, and review are conducted in line with MKC policy and against agreed standards and performance targets.

Requirements of this Children & Families Practice Manager job:

1. A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Social Work England registered.

Contact:

This Children & Families Practice Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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. This commitment has significantly contributed to previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards, as well as 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). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.