Team Manager - Looked After Children Team

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Team Manager to oversee the Looked After Children Team in Bury St Edmunds. The role involves supporting social workers, leading recruitment, and managing team workloads while ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Candidates must have a social work qualification and be registered or eligible for registration. The salary is competitive at up to £55,460 annually, and the position emphasizes equality, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment.

Qualifications

• Social Work Qualification or equivalent is mandatory.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is crucial.
• Must be registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Support Social Workers through supervision and meetings.
• Lead recruitment and selection of team members.
• Manage team workload and monitor practices.
• Represent Local Authority at external meetings.
• Chair complex case professionals meetings.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Registered or eligible for registration

Job description

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 Bury.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £55,460 per annum.

• Support Social Workers through the process of supervision and by attending conferences, reviews, joint interviews, initial core groups and other meetings where appropriate.
• Lead the recruitment and selection of staff including acting as Chair of the recruitment panel.
• Lead formal processes in relation to matters such as disciplinary, grievance and change management.
• Contribute as an effective part of the Management Team within your service area in addition to attending management team meetings.
• Manage, allocate and monitor team workload in accordance with priorities agreed with Senior Managers, ensuring fair distribution of work within the team.
• Maintain oversight of lone working and other staff safety arrangement in the team, ensuring that risk assessments are undertaken and implemented.
• Represent the Local Authority at external meetings to represent the needs of Bury children and young people as agreed with line management.
• Chair complex case professionals meetings.
• Take responsibility for key decisions in respect of individual children and young people, in accordance with departmental and statutory guidelines.
• Monitor the level and quality of social work practice, including reporting to Senior Managers and elected members, so that high standards of service to the public are promoted and that Bury Standards are maintained.
• Monitor and review working practices with the team, promoting a positive supportive and high-performance culture.
• Quality assure and authorise team reports, statements or plans to promote high-quality standards.
• Facilitate the professional development of supervision line, including the identification of training needs and developing an appropriate resource in response to these needs.

Requirements for this Team Manager role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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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