Social Work Team Manager - Court Team - Haringey - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a permanent Team Manager to work full-time in Haringey. This role involves managing a dedicated team, ensuring high professional standards, and complying with childcare legislation. Candidates should hold a relevant professional qualification and have the ability to travel independently. The salary for this position is up to £59,313 per annum.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification in social work.
• Knowledge of childcare legislation.
• Ability to travel independently.

Responsibilities

• Manage team and ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Ensure team's record keeping is maintained effectively.
• Chair practice meetings and monitor performance.
• Provide high-quality supervision of staff.
• Evaluate staff performance including appraisals.

Skills

Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation

Ability to travel independently

Education

CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work, or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Court Team to work full-time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £59,313 per annum.

Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for the management of the Team and ensure that the service provided is of the highest professional standard and is responsive to legislative requirements as well as corporate and national priorities.
• To be responsible for all the work held within the team and to ensure that it is prioritised and allocated promptly within the available resources.
• To ensure the team’s record keeping is maintained to a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks.
• To chair a range of practice meetings, including strategy meetings, core group meetings, monitoring the performance of agreed tasks for all participants.
• To provide regular, high-quality, challenging, and reflective supervision of staff within agreed timescales and according to the departmental policy.
• To be responsible for evaluating staff performance, including conducting probationary assessments, performance appraisals, sickness absence procedures, and any other relevant procedures.
• To facilitate and direct as necessary partnership with parents, carers, other professionals, and partner agencies to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.
• To develop a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies, children, and their families, and to enable children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
• To work with managers in and across the Children and Young People’s Service to ensure children receive a seamless and holistic response to their needs.
• To authorise, monitor, and review financial commitments ensuring they meet children’s needs, are within cost limits, adhere to Best Value principles, and to contribute to the identification of any resource shortages and efficiencies.
• To take the lead role for defined areas of service, to deputise for their line manager, to ensure that all decisions are taken at an appropriate level, and senior managers informed of identified risk, as and when necessary.
• To undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required and assigned by the service.

Requirements:

• CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work, or equivalent professional qualification.
• Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation.
• Ability to travel independently to all required areas by the job’s responsibilities.

Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). 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.