Team Manager

My Social Work News; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Team Manager for the Family Support & Child Protection Team. This permanent full-time position will be based in Bexley and offers a salary up to £63,042 per year. The ideal candidate will have a social work qualification, management experience, and a strong understanding of child protection practices. Responsibilities include overseeing a team, providing expert advice, and collaborating with multi-agency partners to ensure effective support for young adults transitioning from care.

Qualifications

• Seeking candidates with management experience in children's services.
• Must understand relevant legislation and be registered with Social Work England.
• Experience in adult social work is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee child protection processes and manage team performance.
• Provide specialist social work knowledge to assist multi-agency professionals.
• Liaise with external partners to support young adults leaving care.

Skills

Management

Child Protection Knowledge

Multi-Agency Coordination

Legislation Understanding

Education

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 Family Support & Child Protection Team to work full time based in Bexley.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £63,042 per annum.

• To have experience with, or a willingness to be trained and learn, the Signs of Safety practice model and support this approach in all aspects of the work carried out by the team.
• To have previous management or supervisory responsibility of other practitioners working within children and families services, including the Leaving Care service. To contribute to the development and implementation of local policies and service improvement strategies and support their implementation within the team and service.
• To provide specialist social work and child protection knowledge and advice to the team, service, and other multi-agency professionals that helps them better understand the diverse experiences of the young adults leaving care with whom we work.
• To liaise, network, influence and coordinate with other multi-agency partners to provide the best level of multi-disciplinary support to young adults leaving care and where appropriate their children.
• To ensure that timely response and action is carried out by the team to any contacts, referrals, allocations, complaints, information requests, child protection enquiries, court directives received, and plans for children.
• To ensure the practice and management oversight of all work and performance in the team is compliant with relevant laws, statutory guidance, and local procedures that govern children’s safeguarding, adult safeguarding, the social work profession, health and safety, employment law, human rights, and data protection.
• To maintain regular supervision and appraisal of worker performance in the team that includes case management oversight, timely decision making, the effective implementation of pathway plans, reflective space, respectful challenge, recognising areas of good and bad practice and supports the ongoing learning and development of workers.
• To chair strategy, review, planning, professional, and network meetings as required.
• Other duties as required necessary to carry out the smooth functioning of the service and to meet our corporate parenting and safeguarding responsibilities to children.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Experience within a management role
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.
• Experience within Adult Social Work.

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

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.