Team Manager - North Family Support Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A dedicated recruitment agency is seeking a full-time Team Manager for the North Family Support Team located in Milton Keynes. The role involves ensuring the well-being and safety of children in need, leading a team, and managing interventions. Candidates must have a Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. The salary is up to £58,619 per annum.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure children's safety and well-being.
• Lead partnership working with key agencies.
• Manage team performance and resources effectively.

Skills

Safeguarding children

Team management

Assessment and care planning

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 North Family Support Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £58,619 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all children in need, in need of protection, and/or in care are safeguarded and heir well-being is promoted effectively, through the application of specialist theory, practical and procedural knowledge.
• Ensure a range of interventions appropriate to the needs of the families are provided to support children in need and at risk to live safely within their family wherever possible.
• Lead and facilitate partnership working with key agencies, ensuring best possible outcomes for children.
• A team consisting of deputy team managers, social workers and social work assistants is effectively manged and supervised, and casework is allocated and monitored across the team's area of responsibility. To comply with the standards set out by he professional body Social Work England.
• Assessments, care planning and case work reviews are conducted in line with legislation, and agreed national standards, performance targets and regulatory requirements are met.
• Utilise detailed and complex analysis from highly complex information and from a variety of sources and quality to underpin creative short-and long term solutions in highly complex and risky situations.
• Make and be responsible for appropriate decisions and exercise initiative with a view to safeguarding children only referring to a more senior level where there are significant resource and policy issues or matters of a particularly sensitive or complex nature.
• The designated team budgets are effectively and creatively managed to ensure that every pound spent, and staff and resources used, delivers the most benefit to children and families.
• Staff performance conforms to the required professional and performance standards, including full electronic recording of work on ICS.

Qualifications

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

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. 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.