Team Manager - Children with Disabilities Team - Dagenham - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency specializing in social care is seeking a Team Manager for the Children with Disabilities Team in Greater London. This full-time role involves overseeing the team, ensuring compliance with legislation, and delivering high-quality service. Candidates must possess a social work qualification and have substantial leadership skills. This position offers a salary of up to £61,653 per annum and provides an opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience in supervising staff and appraisal processes.
• Ability to chair complex strategy meetings and prepare for court evidence.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to operational instructions and practice guidance.
• Support team members through supervision and appraisal.
• Promote evidence-based practice in service delivery.
• Manage budget expenditures and monitor financials.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Leadership and management skills

Communication skills

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Team Manager – Children with Disabilities Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children with Disabilities Team to work Full Time based in Barking & Dagenham.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £61,653 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.
• Support all members of the team by ensuring regular supervision, appraisal and communication on an individual 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.
• To conduct annual appraisals of all staff supervised and to identify individual and team staff development needs.
• 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 expenditures to approve appropriate expenditure and assist in budget management, maintaining proper budget monitoring and to work within budget.
• To demonstrate awareness of best value and opportunity cost implications of all decisions and actions in relation to individual cases supervised within the team.
• 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 role:

• 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.