Team Manager - Fostering Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Croydon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Croydon is seeking a Team Manager for its Fostering Team. The role involves leading a team of social workers, ensuring compliance with legislation, and improving service delivery. Candidates should have a social work qualification, management experience, and be registered with Social Work England. This full-time position offers a salary of up to £57,102 per annum.

Qualifications

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent required.
• Past Management Experience necessary.
• Social Work England registration is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage performance of social workers.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
• Manage and contribute to service improvement projects.

Skills

Management Experience

Understanding of legislation

Social Work Skills

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Fostering Team to work full time (3 days in office) based in Croydon.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,102 per annum.

* To lead and manage performance of a team of social workers and foster a culture of continuous learning and reflection of practice that inspires staff to give of their best in their roles.

* Introduce, embed and continually improve at team level, the quality of social work consistent with established models of good practice.

* To provide professional advice to staff, colleagues and partners for the area of responsibility.

* Ensure that assessments and plans for children are robust, evidence-based, progressed in a timely way, are effective in keeping children safe and are outcome focused.

* Allocate cases effectively in terms of matching the risk/complexity of cases with the skills, experience and professional development needs of social workers.

* Prioritise the deployment of staff resources and ensure practice is operating in accordance with the thresholds of Croydon's early help and staged intervention model.

* Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and Croydon practice standards in respect of the protection and wellbeing of children, including looked after children and young people.

* To embed and develop the outcome focussed framework and culture across the service that demonstrates measurable improvements in the stability, wellbeing and safety of children and families allocated in the Team.

* Contribute to the development and introduction of a quality assurance framework for the service and use the fundings to drive continuous practice improvement in the Team.

* To manage and contribute to projects that deliver service improvement, working to recognised project management principles and methods.

* To maintain up-to-date knowledge of research findings, legislation, statutory guidance and policy developments relevant to the service area.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Past Management Experience.

* 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.

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