Team Manager- Peripatetic Team

Sanctuary Personnel; Northampton; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local recruitment agency is seeking a Team Manager for its Peripatetic Team in Northamptonshire. This role involves leading a team of social workers, ensuring compliance with child welfare legislation, and promoting high standards of practice. The ideal candidate should have a social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England. A competitive salary of up to £54,430 is offered.

Qualifications

• Degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification required.
• Knowledge of child welfare standards and legislation expected.
• Active registration with Social Work England is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of social workers in service delivery.
• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
• Develop collaborative relationships with local services.

Skills

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Understanding of relevant legislation

Social Work England registered

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel has a permanent position for a Team Manager within the Peripatetic Team, based in Northamptonshire. Salary up to £54,430 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To provide an effective child centred service, which complies with legal, regulatory and statutory guidance, and leads to improved outcomes for children.
• To ensure the promotion and safeguarding of children and young people's welfare is cornerstone of service delivery, taking responsibility for the implementation of legislation, policies and procedures within the team/centre/designated specialism.
• To be responsible for overseeing the social work practices within the team through reflective supervision, regular evidence based auditing and feedback this setting standards of service.
• To take responsibility for a team in excess of Social Workers, ensuring high quality and regular supervision and effective performance management systems are in place.
• To work with staff to manage and allocate cases ensuring that children, young people, carers and families receive first class specialist assessments and timely support to meet their needs.
• To develop collaborative working relationships with relevant services and provide local leadership which contributes to effective partnership working.
• To provide operational leadership, vision and direction by delivering service improvement within a social care service or disabled children's or fostering and adoption service.
• The Team Manager will be responsible for a team of staff consisting of 7; formed of social workers, senior social workers, senior practitioner and social work support staff.
• To be accountable for ensuring the team achieves its operational plan; by promoting an appropriate culture, empowering others and setting and maintaining high and measurable standards of practice.

Requirements

• 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, 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.