Social Work Team Manager - Children Looked After

Remedy Social Work; Berrington; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top tier supplier

Referral bonus

Weekly payroll

Job summary

Shropshire Council is seeking a Social Work Team Manager within the Children Looked After service. You will provide management cover and oversee a team of seven social workers, ensuring supervision every four weeks, and chair multi-agency meetings on permanence planning and risk management.

The role involves progressing SGO or discharge of care orders with legal services, quality assuring documents, and providing weekly performance oversight; travel may be required for in-person meetings and

Qualifications

• Experience supervising social work staff and chairing multi-agency meetings.
• Ability to manage performance and provide oversight of casework quality.
• Collaborate with legal services for care plan progression and orders.

Responsibilities

• Provide management cover to an additional capacity team for looked after children.
• Supervise a team of seven social workers with four-weekly supervision.
• Chair multi-agency meetings on permanence planning and risk management.
• Progress plans of SGO or discharges of care orders with legal services.
• Quality assure key documents and assessments per care planning regulations.
• Provide performance oversight via weekly performance meetings.
• Act as duty manager for the CLA and UASC service during leave/sickness.

Skills

Team supervision

Meeting facilitation

Performance management

Risk management

Legal collaboration

Job description

Our client Shropshire council are looking for a Social work Team manager to join their Children looked after service.

Driving Licence Required:

TM's may need to visit families with the SW as required and chair meetings in person.

Working/ Hybrid Arrangements:

• Office based one day per week
• Face to face team meetings on a monthly basis
• Face to face managers meetings once per month
• Quarterly directors assurance face to face

There may be additional times that the team manager needs to travel for case purposes such as chairing meetings in person, attending court etc.

Job responsibilites

• To provide management cover to an additional capacity team with responsibility for looked after children.
• Supervise a team of 7 social workers, meeting the requirement for all children to receive supervision on a 4 weekly basis.
• To chair multi-agency meetings in relation to permanence planning and risk management, providing comprehensive management oversight to progress young people's plans.
• To progress plans of SGO or discharges of care order, working with legal services to ensure this is progressed in a timely way.
• To quality assure key documents and assessments in a timely manner as part of care planning regulations and to meet the needs of the service.
• To provide performance oversight for the team, attending a weekly performance meeting to share current data and agree a plan to remedy any outstanding tasks.
• To act as a duty manager for the CLA and UASC Service, covering annual leave and staff sickness.

Benefits of working with Remedy

A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.

• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply

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Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit