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

Sanctuary Personnel; London; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized recruitment agency is seeking an Advanced Social Worker to lead the Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team. The role involves providing professional support, managing complex situations, and fostering positive relationships. The ideal candidate will have a Social Work Qualification and be registered with Social Work England. This full-time position offers a competitive salary of up to £55,625 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Experience in leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues.
• Model effective assessment and management of risk.
• Support assessment procedures in complex situations.

Skills

Leadership

Critical reasoning

Risk management

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

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, 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).

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.