Team Manager - MASH Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Greater London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanctuary Personnel is recruiting a Team Manager for the MASH Team in Barking & Dagenham. This permanent, full-time role (24 hours) oversees supervision, strategy, and safeguarding service delivery to meet national and local priorities.

The successful candidate will hold a Social Work degree, have current SW England registration, and post-qualifying experience. The post offers leadership responsibilities within the local management team and a commitment to evidence-based practice.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Post qualifying social work experience.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational instructions and provide practice guidance, making use of legislation, national guidelines and research to ensure that the highest standards are achieved and maintained.
• To be a member of the local management team by ensuring regular supervision, appraisal and communication on an individual and team basis to ensure an informed and professional approach to service delivery and an awareness of the changing national and local demands and priorities by the implementation of appropriate performance review mechanisms.
• Promote evidence-based practice in the team and to manage, monitor and ensure the effective delivery of the service.
• Setting of Team/Service objectives and targets linked too national & local performance indicators, legislation and guidance including the provision of regular and reliable management information and its analysis to inform the continuous improvement to safeguarding services.
• To conduct annual appraisals of all staff supervised and to identify individual and team staff development needs.
• To chair and attend complex strategy meetings and support staff to prepare for multi-agency meetings and evidence giving at court.
• To allocate and provide detailed management oversight on new or transferred referrals. This will include tracking the progress of interim safeguarding plans, conducting audits and preparing files for case transfer.
• To be responsible for assigned budget expenditure to approve appropriate expenditure and assist in budget management, maintaining proper budget monitoring and to work within budget.
• To demonstrate awareness of best value and opportunity cost implications of all decision and actions in relation to individual cases supervised within the team.
• To develop effective working partnerships across the council and with key strategic partners.
• To develop a practice focus and a high-level of awareness in listening actively to children, parents, carers and the community.
• To be responsible for personal and professional development and seeking evidence of good practice.

Education

Degree in Social Work

Social Work England Registration

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the MASH Team to work Full Time (24 Hours) based in Barking & Dagenham.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager role is up to £61,653 per annum.

Main duties:

• Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational instructions and provide practice guidance, making use of legislation, national guidelines and research to ensure that the highest standards are achieved and maintained.
• To be a member of the local management team by ensuring regular supervision, appraisal and communication on an individual and team basis to ensure an informed and professional approach to service delivery and an awareness of the changing national and local demands and priorities by the implementation of appropriate performance review mechanisms.
• Promote evidence-based practice in the team and to manage, monitor and ensure the effective delivery of the service.
• Setting of Team/Service objectives and targets linked too national & local performance indicators, legislation and guidance including the provision of regular and reliable management information and its analysis to inform the continuous improvement to safeguarding services.
• To conduct annual appraisals of all staff supervised and to identify individual and team staff development needs.
• To chair and attend complex strategy meetings and support staff to prepare for multi-agency meetings and evidence giving at court.
• To allocate and provide detailed management oversight on new or transferred referrals. This will include tracking the progress of interim safeguarding plans, conducting audits and preparing files for case transfer.
• To be responsible for assigned budget expenditure to approve appropriate expenditure and assist in budget management, maintaining proper budget monitoring and to work within budget.
• To demonstrate awareness of best value and opportunity cost implications of all decision and actions in relation to individual cases supervised within the team.
• To develop effective working partnerships across the council and with key strategic partners.
• To develop a practice focus and a high-level of awareness in listening actively to children, parents, carers and the community.
• To be responsible for personal and professional development and seeking evidence of good practice.

Requirements of this Team Manager Job.

• Degree or Equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Post Qualifying Social Work Experience.

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.