Team Manager - Family Safeguarding Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Luton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a dedicated Team Manager for Family Safeguarding in Luton. This full-time role involves leading a team to provide specialist assessments and interventions, ensuring the safeguarding of children and families. The successful candidate will manage workloads, establish quality assurance systems, and collaborate with various agencies to deliver effective services. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive environment where your contributions can make a significant impact on the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing teams and making high-risk decisions.
• Strong understanding of relevant legislation and social work practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a team providing specialist assessment services.
• Ensure high standards of professional practice and service delivery.

Skills

Team Management

High-risk decision making

Assessment and intervention services

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 Safeguarding to work full time based in Luton.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,861 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. To develop and manage a team responsible for providing specialist assessment and intervention services throughout Luton. Make high-risk decisions concerning the safeguarding of children.
2. Establish the appropriate assessments required and identify the level of need for support/services and or placements of children and families.
3. Determine the need for care proceedings to be instigated where the risk of significant harm is so great as to warrant a Court Order.
4. Maintain effective systems for prioritising, allocating and monitoring workloads and ensure that suitable systems of supervision and appraisal are in place to ensure children and families needs are met in accordance with legislation, departmental policies and procedures.
5. Ensure the provision of an effective service to local people by maintaining high standards of professional practice and adopting a positive approach to the full involvement of service users and carers in assessment and care planning processes, at all times encouraging independence and choice.
6. Ensure that the work of the team and performance targets are monitored according to key performance indicators, Children's Trust arrangements and Council priorities and implement service improvements to ensure quality service delivery.
7. Identify and implement service improvements to ensure quality service delivery, establish and management robust quality assurance systems and preparation for annual external inspection.
8. Participate in the development of strategic objectives and the production of departmental, service and team plans, policies and procedures and under the guidance of the Integrated Service Manager.
9. Maintain effective links and working relationships within the Department and with relevant statutory, voluntary and private agencies. Work in partnership with these agencies in order to provide a well-coordinated quality service to individual service users making the most effective use of local resources.
10. Identify and arrange for services provided to service users by internal and external providers to be commissioned effectively and monitored in order to ensure that quality standards and service user needs are met.

Requirements:

1. A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Social Work England registered.

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 role 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.