Team Manager - Assessment Team - Dagenham - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in London is seeking a Team Manager for the Assessment Team. The role involves leading operational practices, overseeing team management, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Ideal candidates will possess a social work qualification or equivalent. The salary for this position can reach up to £64,739 per annum, offering a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to contribute to high standards of service delivery.

Qualifications

• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational instructions.
• Support the Service Manager and participate in multi-agency working.
• Ensure regular supervision and appraisal for team members.
• Promote evidence-based practice and manage service delivery.
• Chair and attend complex strategy meetings and prepare for court.
• Manage budget expenditure and maintain proper budget monitoring.
• Develop effective working partnerships across the council.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Operational oversight

Team management

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 Assessment Team to work Full Time based in Barking & Dagenham.

The salary for this Team Manager job is up to £64,739 per annum.

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational instructions and provide practice guidance, making use of legislation, national guidelines and research to ensure that the highest standards are achieved and maintained.
• To be a member of the local management team to provide support to the Service Manager and to participate as representatives of the Council, as required in other structures established for multi-agency working.
• Support all members of the team by ensuring regular supervision, appraisal and communication on an individual and team basis to ensure an informed and professional approach to service delivery and an awareness of the changing national and local demands and priorities by the implementation of appropriate performance review mechanisms.
• Promote evidence-based practice in the team and to manage, monitor and ensure the effective delivery of the service.
• Setting of Team/Service objectives and targets linked too national & local performance indicators, legislation and guidance including the provision of regular and reliable management information and its analysis to inform the continuous improvement to safeguard services.
• To chair and attend complex strategy meetings and support staff to prepare for multi-agency meetings and evidence giving at Court.
• To allocate and provide detailed management oversight on new or transferred referrals. This will include tracking the progress of interim safeguarding plans, conducting audits and preparing files for case transfer.
• To be responsible for assigned budget expenditure to approve appropriate expenditure and assist in budget management, maintaining proper budget monitoring and to work within budget.
• To develop effective working partnerships across the council and with key strategic partners.
• To develop a practice focus and a high level of awareness in listening actively to children, parents, carers and the community.
• To be responsible for personal and professional development and seeking evidence of good practice.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:
This Team Manager 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. 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.