Team Manager, MASH & A&I - Slough - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Slough; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Team Manager for the MASH & A&I Team in Slough. The role involves overseeing child case distribution, quality assurance, and team supervision to ensure children’s needs are met. Candidates must have a social work qualification, understanding of relevant legislation, and be registered or eligible for registration. This position offers a salary of up to £63,824 per annum and seeks individuals committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Qualifications

• A social work qualification or equivalent is required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation is essential.
• Candidate must be registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Oversee distribution of caseloads ensuring needs of children are met.
• Make decisions regarding cases in legal planning meetings.
• Conduct regular quality assurance activities.
• Create and monitor team plans linked to service objectives.
• Supervise Assistant Team Managers and Senior Social Workers.
• Support team members to seek feedback from children and families.
• Encourage professional development of Assistant Team Managers.
• Ensure anti-discriminatory practices in service delivery.
• Deputise for the Head of Service as necessary.

Skills

Leadership

Social Work Qualification

Decision Making

Quality Assurance

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the MASH & A&I Team to work Full Time based in Slough.

The salary for this Team Manager job is up to £63,824 per annum.

• To oversee the distribution of caseloads to ensure that the child or young person’s needs are met appropriately.
• Make clear decision around threshold for cases that are part of legal planning meetings, strategy decisions, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated and decisions are recorded on the case file.
• Carry out regular quality assurance activities including observations, case reviews, team and peer moderated audits that collaboratively involve social work staff to support their professional development, improve the consistency of practice and seek the views of families.
• Create, implement and monitor a team plan which links to service and strategic objectives with the overall aim to improve performance.
• Directly supervises the Assistant Team Managers and Senior Social Workers in the team as per Slough Children First supervision policy.
• Support all members of the team to actively seek the views of children and families to inform practice in individual cases and uses this feedback to shape the team, it’s learning and feed into the overall strategic direction of Slough Children First.
• Assist and encourage the professional development of the Assistant Team Manager, providing them with opportunities to grow and develop to become Team Managers.
• Supports the Assistant Team Manager to make effective day-to-day use of all available professional resources, addressing barriers and issues across Slough Children First and with partners where required through the development and maintenance of professional links with partner agencies and the voluntary sector, whilst supporting the links of the Assistant Team Manager.
• Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc, and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough.
• Deputise for the Head of Service, undertake projects and other additional duties, as required. To undertake work outside office hours as necessary.

Requirements

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

Contact

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, 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.

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.