Team Manager - MASH Team - Haringey - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for an experienced Team Manager for the MASH Team in Haringey. This full-time permanent role requires a social work qualification and focuses on team management, safeguarding, and ensuring high standards in service delivery. Competitive salary up to £57,102 per annum is offered.

Qualifications

• Must be registered or eligible for registration with the relevant health professional council.
• Requires understanding of relevant legislation.
• Experience in managing a team in a social services setting.

Responsibilities

• Manage duty and monitor incoming referrals, ensuring timely progression.
• Provide high-quality supervision to staff.
• Facilitate partnerships with professionals to ensure best outcomes for children.

Skills

Team leadership

Understanding of legislation

Staff development

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 Team to work full-time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,102 per annum.

Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for the management of the team and ensure that the service provided is of the highest professional standard and is responsive to legislative requirements as well as corporate and national priorities.
• To manage duty and monitor the incoming referrals, identify urgent safeguarding referrals, and ensure timely progression.
• To be responsible for all the work held within the team and to ensure that it is prioritised and allocated promptly within the available resources.
• To ensure the team’s record keeping is maintained to a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks.
• Monitoring the performance of the team and ensuring that timescales are met.
• To provide regular, high-quality, challenging, and reflective supervision of staff within agreed timescales and according to the departmental policy.
• To promote staff learning and development, including practice learning within the team and post-qualifying training for registered social workers and managers.
• To facilitate and direct as necessary, partnership with partners, carers, other professionals, and partner agencies to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.
• To develop a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies, children, and their families, and to enable children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
• To work with managers in and across the Children and Young People’s Service to ensure children receive a seamless and holistic response to their needs.
• To implement the service Business Plan, ensuring that team members are clear about their individual and collective contribution towards achieving the objectives, targets, and standards contained within it, and to manage performance against these.
• To take the lead role for defined areas of service, to deputise for their line manager, to ensure that all decisions are taken at an appropriate level, and senior managers informed of identified risk, as and when necessary.
• To undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required and assigned by the service.

Requirements:

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

Sanctuary Personnel is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.