Team Manager: Safeguarding and Support - Dudley, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Personnel

Sanctuary Personnel

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Dudley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Safeguarding and Support Team to work full time based in Dudley.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £52,145 per annum.

Main duties:

Responsible for the leadership and management of a social work team, ensuring that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard and promote their welfare
Actively promote and contribute to the strategic developments for children and their families in Dudley
Responsible over: Assistant Team Managers, Social Workers, ASYE's, Trainee Social Workers and Young Person's Advisors
To have full responsibility for the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers, in line with legislation, guidance and local policy and procedures
To make highly complex decisions relating to social service provision for children, young people and their families within Dudley
To manage allocation of work in accordance with priorities, ensuring that assessments, care plans and reviews are implemented where required and ensure that all statutory timescales are met
To work collaboratively with partner agencies, within the children's division and in the voluntary sector to ensure multiagency assessment, planning, intervention and review
To negotiate the provision of services with voluntary and external agencies that supports the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers
To contribute to the management of services as a member of the Children's Services Management Team
To promote effective internal and external communication
To chair and participate in working groups, task groups, and to be fully involved in Service planning, Child Protection Conferences and associated review processes.
To ensure the requirements of appropriate childcare legislation and guidance are understood by all members of staff. This should be disseminated during team meetings and within supervision
To monitor and review effective workload management and to ensure performance management / quality of case work is being maintained
To contribute to the development of the Service Plan

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

A social work qualification or equivalent
Experience of managing social care services for children and families
Experience of providing supervision, and consultation
Significant experience in providing social care services for children and families
Experience of being involved in cultural and organisational change in complex organisations
Experience of being involved in developing and monitoring services
Experience of being involved in partnerships/interagency working
Understanding of relevant legislation
Continual professional development
Social Work England registered

Contact:

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 youthroughout the process and into your work placement.