Team Manager - Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team - Reigate

Sanctuary Personnel; City Of London; On-site; GBP 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an Advanced Social Worker for the Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team in Woking, Surrey. This role involves providing leadership and professional support, enhancing practices, and ensuring effective safeguarding. Candidates need a social work qualification and must be registered with Social Work England. The salary is up to £55,625 per annum.

Qualifications

• Social Work England registered.
• Experience in complex situations.
• Ability to promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and support to colleagues.
• Enhance practice and procedures.
• Manage a defined team or area.

Skills

Leadership

Professional support

Critical reasoning

Risk management

Safeguarding

Education

Social work qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Job description

Team Manager - Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team - Reigate

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for an Advanced Social Worker within the Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team to work full time based in Woking, Surrey.

The salary for this permanent Advanced Social Worker job is up to £55,625 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
• Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
• Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
• Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
• Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.
• Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
• Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
• Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
• Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
• Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individuals contributions are maximised.
• Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
• Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
• When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.

Requirements

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact

This Advanced Social Worker 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, 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 reflects the clients that candidates will support within their role. Sanctuary takes pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). All employees undertake annual online training on EDI and compliance training.

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Notes

Expiry: This description reflects the current role as advertised. If you believe this is outdated or the position has changed, please contact Sanctuary Personnel for clarification.