Childrens Assistant Team Manager

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

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Childrens Assistant Team Manager in Wrexham for a 1-month contract. The role involves managing a team to safeguard children and promote their well-being, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Candidates must hold a relevant degree and management qualification, with experience in social care.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant field and registration with a care body.
• PQ Award or evidence of professional development.
• Management qualification or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.
• Ensure timely assessments and reviews.
• Provide advice on professional practice.

Skills

Management

Supervision

Budget Monitoring

Education

Degree in Social Care or Health

Management Qualification ILM Level 5

Assessors Award

Job description

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority inWrexham to assist with the appointment of a Childrens Assistant Team Manager , on a 1-month contract, likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £31.47 - £31.47 per hour

Summary:

To manage part of a team that safeguards from harm and promotes the wellbeing of children in need / vulnerable adults to the designated client group of people who need care and support, and their carers, across the Borough in line with departmental policy based on relevant legislation.

Responsibilities:

• To provide advice on professional practice, and in managing the team through its procedures and activities so that it provides an efficient service and high quality service for its clients.
• To ensure the Team operates effectively to meet the needs of the individual clients in line with legislative responsibility, and that the team's approach is sensitive and appropriate to those needs.
• To plan, allocate and evaluate work carried out by the team in order to affect efficient running of the service.
• To ensure assessments and reviews are carried out in a timely manner.
• To ensure that visits to people in need of care and support, their families and carers meet minimal time schedules and are appropriately recorded.

Qualifications:

• Hold a degree or equivalent within a relevant Social Care or Health field and be registered with the appropriate health or social care registration body.
• PQ Award or evidence of professional development
• Management Qualification ILM Level 5, NVQ4 or Post Graduate Certificate in Managing Practice Quality in Social Care or equivalent or achieved within prescribed timescale
• Assessors Award that meets requirements for assessment of SW students or Occupational Therapy students or the commitment to obtain within an agreed timescale.
• Qualified as Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP) or Best Interest Assessor (BIA)

Relevant Knowledge:

• Relevant Social Services Law, e.g. Children Act 1989; Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act, Mental Health Act + Regulations, Circulars.
• Candidates should be able to demonstrate both generic knowledge and specialist knowledge relevant to the Assistant Team Manager post applied for. Likewise experience within a specialist area must be demonstrated.
• Working knowledge of Employment Law: Health & Safety at Work Act, etc

Experience Required:

• Proven post registration experience of working with children and young people working with vulnerable adults their families and carers
• Experience of supervision of staff, students or volunteers
• Experience of budget monitoring

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 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. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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