Team Leader - Contextual Safeguarding Team

Sanctuary Personnel; London Borough of Hillingdon; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Team Leader for the Contextual Safeguarding Team in Hillingdon. This role offers the opportunity to lead a team focused on delivering effective intervention programs for children and young people. The ideal candidate will possess a professional social work qualification and have a strong understanding of relevant legislation. You will be responsible for managing team performance, ensuring effective communication, and building relationships with partner agencies. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, and make a positive impact in your community.

Qualifications

• Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent is essential.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for selection, development, and performance of prevention programmes.
• Provide expert advice to staff and manage team workloads effectively.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Expertise in Social Work

Analytical Skills

Education

Professional Social Work Qualification

Job description

Hillingdon, Hayes , Greater London , England
UB3

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Leader within the Contextual Safeguarding Team to work full time for based in Hillingdon.

The salary for this permanent Team Leader job is up to £54,129 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. To be responsible for the selection, development and performance of the AXIS and Government funded prevention programmes in line with the Council's HR policies.
2. To ensure all team members receive the appropriate level of communication to maintain engagement with the Council's vision, priorities and activities.
3. To work closely and creatively with the partner agencies and community groups to ensure effective intervention programmes are delivered to children and young people.
4. Provide expert professional and technical advice to other staff, managers, colleagues and partners.
5. To manage workload systems to ensure resources address priority cases and respond to changing needs and circumstances, ensuring staff workloads are suited to their training and experience.
6. To produce management information and analysis which can be presented to a range of audiences.
7. Provide professional leadership to colleagues through demonstrating exemplary practice, sharing knowledge and positively managing the interface between practice and education/training.
8. Ensure that all appropriate practice guidance and policies are in place and reviewed on a regular basis.
9. To take responsibility for the effective management of the allocated department/team budget.
10. To ensure that resources are managed and deployed effectively to ensure maximum impact and service delivery.
11. Manage the implementation of improvement initiatives and change programmes using the Council Project Management and Service Improvement methodologies.
12. To build maintain effective working relationships with partner agencies on a local, regional and national level.

Requirements of this Team Leader role:

1. A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Team Leader job 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.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role.

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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.