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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Assessment Team to work full time based in Barking & Dagenham.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £58,248 per annum.

• To be responsible for the management of the social work service to children and their families and where appropriate other related services in a given specialism to ensure that provision is of the highest professional standard, managed within budget and in line with the requirements of Best Value through effective human resource management processes.
• Contribute to the development and dissemination of operational instructions and provide 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 to provide support to the Group Manager and to participate as representatives of the Council, as required in other structures established for multi-agency working.
• Support all members of the 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.
• Setting of Team/Service objectives and targets linked to 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 chair and attend complex strategy meetings and support social workers prepare for multi-agency meetings and evidence giving at Court.
• To demonstrate awareness of best value and opportunity cost implications of all decisions and actions in relation to individual cases supervised within the team.
• 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.
• The post holder may be required to attend to some responsibilities outside normal working hours.
• 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.
• Take responsibility for continuing self-development and participate in training development activities.

Requirements of this Team Manager role:

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact: This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

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.

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.