Sanctuary Social Care currently has a locum vacancy for an experienced and dedicated Assistant Team Manager to work within a SEND Service based in Bournemouth. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of Social Work Practice in Children's Services and be registered with Social Work England.
As the post holder of this role, you will receive a competitive rate of £25.05 per hour (Assignment rate) and this role is a 3-month contract.
Role purpose:
- As postholder of this role you will assist the Team Manager in the effective management of the statutory SEND function, by supporting practice improvement through delegated management tasks as appropriate. This will include undertaking individual supervision and leading group supervision to ensure outcome-based practice is embedded throughout the team.
Main Duties/Responsibilities:
- Assist the Team Manager in all aspects of work allocation, performance management and staffing issues.
- Collaborate with the Team Manager and undertake a range of duties to support staff, including guidance and coaching through supervisions and more informal methods of mentoring.
- Be accountable for the quality of work undertaken by your direct reports, and encourage the use and monitoring of agreed performance standards in line with using the safe practice models.
- You will need to be able to identify potential risk to individual children by having a sound knowledge of the workload cases you oversee and be able to quickly take steps to eliminate or mitigate risk to the education of vulnerable children and Young People.
- Be accountable to the Team Manager for the quality of work undertaken against agreed performance standards, and advise or escalate to the Team Manager any concerns which may affect the standard of performance required or risk to individual children.
- This role is key in providing newly appointed or inexperienced staff with the opportunity to receive effective mentoring, to ensure they meet the high expectations of delivering best outcomes, to help maintain high levels of compliance when recording actions in line with our legal obligations.
Requirements of the Assistant Team Manager:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant senior level frontline experience within Children's services
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience in education, social care or other child-centred service.
- Commitment to undertake management training.
- Proven relevant post qualifying experience of direct work within a Local Authority fieldwork team.
Contact:
This Assistant Team Manager job is advertised by Lauren Minter; 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.
