Team Manager - Hackney - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a full-time Team Manager for a Residential home in Islington. The role involves supervising staff, supporting young people, and ensuring excellence in service delivery. Ideal candidates will have management experience in social care and a solid understanding of safeguarding. This position offers a salary of £34,120 and aims to impact the lives of young individuals positively.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience of working with young people and families.
• Adept at report writing.
• Experience in liaising with Social Services and safeguarding teams.
• Understanding of parenting assessments and early years foundation.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding procedures for adults and children.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a mixed staff team to ensure quality service.
• Provide support to staff and manage performance issues.
• Hold daily responsibility for rota cover and staff deployment.
• Participate in management on call rota.
• Carry out regular audits of service provision.

Skills

Experience with young people

Report writing

Liaising with professional networks

Understanding of child development

Management experience

Knowledge of safeguarding procedures

Experience in assessment and support planning

Job description

Main Duties

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a full-time Team Manager based in a Residential home in Hackney.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager role is £34,120.

We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our Homelessness and Prevention team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

Across our young people and homeless prevention services we work with over 400 young people who need support for a wide range of reasons including those leaving care, teenage parents, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending, young people who have been made homeless and people with mental health needs.

Our facilities and services include high to medium supported housing, assessment centres, floating support and supported housing for young parents to help young people gain stability and take control of their futures.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise a mixed staff team and ensure the delivery of a high-quality service to complex needs young peoples supported living home in Islington
• Provide support and advice to staff with their day to day work and manage performance issues when and if they arise
• Ensure regular team meetings are held and staff are informed about the organisation’s strategic goals
• Hold day to day responsibility for rota cover and staff deployment
• Ensure that all staff receive appropriate induction, training and development opportunities
• Performance management including setting targets, monitoring and taking action to address any performance issues
• Ensure the implementation of the support database and that appropriate records are kept.
• Participate in the management on call rota
• Carry out regular audits of service provision including health and safety
• Liaise effectively with partner agencies and stakeholders to ensure referrals and assessment issues are dealt with in a timely fashion, and service utilisation is maximised
• Ensure contract compliance, monitoring and service satisfaction
• Ability to promote customer involvement, choice and diversity
• Be proficient on electronic recording systems
• Actively promote the service to internal and external stakeholders

Must Haves

• Have relevant experience of working with young people and parents/families
• Be adept at report writing
• Have experience in liaising with the professional network, including close liaison with Social Services, Youth Offending Team (YOT), family courts, and safeguarding teams
• Have a good understanding of parenting assessments as well as early years foundation
• Have experience and understanding of child development
• Have previous management experience in a social care setting
• Good knowledge of safeguarding procedures for adults and children
• Experience of working within an assessment and support planning process relevant to the customer group

Contact

This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

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.