Team Manager - Looked After Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel; England; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in Luton is seeking a Team Manager for their Looked After Children Team. The role involves managing a team to provide specialist assessment services and making crucial decisions regarding child safeguarding. Applicants must hold a Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The position offers a salary up to £57,861 per annum and reflects practices of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a team providing specialist assessment.
• Make high-risk decisions regarding safeguarding children.
• Ensure effective service delivery based on performance targets.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Ability to manage a team

Social Work England registration

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Looked After Children Team to work full time based in Luton.

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Establish the appropriate assessments required and identify the level of need for support/services and or placements for children and families.
• Determine the need for case proceedings to be instigated where the risk of significant harm is so great as to warrant a Court Order.
• 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.
• 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.
• To be aware of and act within the legal framework and national and local guidance that affects the service area including ensuring case recording is maintained at a high level in order to ensure quality service provision and performance targets are met.
• 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.
• Contribute to and on occasions lead projects in specialised and complex areas in line with departmental objectives and service development needs.
• 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 co-ordinated quality service to individual service users making the most effective use of local resources.
• 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

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

Contacts

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, we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

Additional information

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 has played a significant role in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards and 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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