Social Work Team Manager - Haringey - Sanctuary Personal

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

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Team Manager for a permanent position. Located in Haringey, this full-time role has a salary up to £59,328 per annum. Responsibilities include team management, overseeing service delivery to meet legislative and corporate standards, and conducting staff performance evaluations. Candidates should hold a professional Social Work qualification and have a solid understanding of relevant legislation. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on service quality.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of relevant legislation is essential.
• Must be registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Manage the team to ensure a high standard of service.
• Conduct performance evaluations and appraisals.
• Chair practice meetings and monitor task performance.
• Work collaboratively with parents and partner agencies.
• Implement and manage the service Business Plan.

Skills

Management skills

Social Work knowledge

Understanding of legislation

Education

Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Maya Angelou Service to work Full Time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £59,328 per annum.

• Responsible for the management of the Team and ensure that the service provided is of the highest professional standards and is responsive to legislative requirements as well as corporate and national priorities.
• Responsible for all the work and to ensure that it is prioritised and allocated promptly within the available resources.
• Ensure the team’s recording keeping is maintained to a high standards and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks.
• Chair a range of practice meetings, including strategy meetings, core group meetings, monitoring the performance of agreed tasks for all participants.
• Provide regular, high quality, challenging and reflective supervision of staff within agreed timescales and according to the departmental policy.
• Responsible for evaluating staff performance, including conducting probationary assessments, performance appraisals, sickness absence procedures and any other relevant processes.
• Facilitate and direct as necessary partnership with parents, carers, other professionals and partner agencies to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.
• 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.
• 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.
• Implement the service Business Plan, ensuring that team members are clear about their individual and collective contribution towards achieving the objectives, targets and standards contained within it and to manage performance against these.
• Undertake all work activities ensuring that the Council’s policies (including Equalities) are adhered to and that the organisational values are upheld.
• 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.
• Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required and assigned by the service.

Requirements of this Team Manager role:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:

This Team Manager role is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.

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.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).