Team Manager - Children Looked After Team - Slough - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Slough; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Team Manager for the Children Looked After Team in Slough. The role entails leading the team, making decisions on case thresholds, and ensuring quality assurance in service delivery. Candidates must hold a social work qualification, understand relevant legislation, and be registered or eligible for registration. This full-time position offers a salary of up to £63,824 per annum and focuses on delivering high-quality services while supporting the professional development of staff.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead the team providing appropriate support and challenge.
• Make clear decisions around case thresholds.
• Carry out regular quality assurance activities.
• Attend performance clinics with narrative for performance.
• Create, implement and monitor a team plan.
• Responsible for staff performance appraisals.
• Lead team meetings ensuring timely communication.
• Ensure team members attend training.
• Support Assistant Team Manager in resource use.
• Deputise for the Head of Service.

Skills

Social Work Qualification

Understanding of relevant legislation

Education

Registered or eligible for registration

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children Looked After Team to work Full Time based in Slough.

The salary for this Team Manager job is up to £63,824 per annum.

• As a member of Slough Children First’s Management Team, lead the team providing appropriate support and challenge to ensure the delivery of high-quality services, accurate and timely case file records and the effective use of resources to statutory and legislative requirements.
• Make clear decisions around threshold for cases that are part of legal planning meetings, strategy decisions, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated and decisions are recorded on the case file.
• Carry out regular quality assurance activities including observations, case reviews, team and peer moderated audits that collaboratively involve social work staff to support their professional development, improve the consistency of practice and seek the views of families.
• Attend Head of Service Performance clinics with a clear narrative for performance in their team and actions to be undertaken to address areas for development.
• Create, implement and monitor a team plan which links to service and strategic objectives with the overall aim to improve performance.
• Responsible for the regular and effective appraisal of staff performance through Slough Children First’s appraisal process in order to provide clear direction and challenge to prevent drift and delay.
• Leads team meetings to a high standard, ensuring that service and corporate messages are cascaded to the team in a timely way and supporting effective two-way communications back up to managers from the team.
• Ensure that all members of the team have the capacity to attend training to support their on-going professional development and enable continuous improvements in practice.
• Supports the Assistant Team Manager to make effective day-to-day use of all available professional resources, addressing barriers and issues across Slough Children First and with partners where required through the development and maintenance of professional links with partner agencies and the voluntary sector, whilst supporting the links of the Assistant Team Manager.
• Deputise for the Health of Service, undertake projects and other additional duties, as required. To undertake work outside office hours as necessary.

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 Alex Moon; 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.