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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Assistant Team Manager within the Together for Families Team to work full time for Brighter Futures based in Reading.
The salary for this permanent Assistant Team Manager job is up to £54,587 per annum.

• Lead a small number of staff in delivering a service in a specialised field (e.g. foster, adoption, family support, children and young people with learning or physical disabilities, duty, and referral) and/or geographical area in accordance with legislation requirements, all relevant policies and procedures and agreed performance targets.
• To advise your line manager of any significant incident, event or identified trend, in order to ensure effective and timely management and resolution.
• Provide advice and support in relation to complex cases.
• Undertake/oversee allocation of work to your direct reports to agree service priorities, monitor case files, case records, deal with workload management issues as they arise.
• As directed by involved with or lead on matters related to recruitment, induction, training and personal development, absence management, retention, grievance/discipline/capability, succession planning, workforce planning.
• Undertake professional and reflective supervision, staff appraisals and staff development activities.
• Undertake performance management, quality assurance and act on inadequate performance as appropriate.
• Ensure oversight and adherence to agreed resource packages and contribute to resource planning for the overall team assigned to.
• Ensure you and your supervisees are adhering to agreed policies and procedures. Contribute to development of strategy/services/policies for specialised field, ensuring service delivery is within relevant legislation and regulation.
• Develop and maintain internal and external working relationships with partner organisations, external agencies.
• Chair reviews, planning meetings/case conferences/strategy meetings as appropriate.
• To model leadership competencies and behaviours that continuously develop staff and services.
• To take personal responsibility for identifying and meeting your own development and tracking needs.
• To undertake any other duties that are deemed appropriate to the nature, level and grade of the post, as may be required.
• To take reasonable care of your own health and safety and co-operate with management, so far is necessary, to enable compliance with the company’s health and safety rules and legislative requirements.
• While this job description provides a summary of functions and responsibilities of the post, this may need to be adapted or adjusted to meet changing circumstances. Such changes would be commensurate with the grading of the post.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Assistant 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.