Deputy Team Manager - Short Break Services

Location
Job type Permanent
Salary £41,544 - 56,090 per year
Consultant Keir Turnbull
Call +44 7700 161043
Reference 198794

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Deputy Team Manager within the Short break Service Team to work full time based in Guernsey.

The salary for this permanent Deputy Team Manager  job is up to £56,090 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To work with the Team Manager to support the management and safe and effective delivery of services within Supporting Families and Strong Families.
  • Ensure direction, alignment and commitment within their own practice, and that of their team with project objectives, in order to help children, young people and families aspire to do their best and achieve sustainable change.
  • Assist the Team Manger in building and leading a team that is capable and confident in their ability to deliver services on an intensive and outcome focussed basis, manage resources and lead new approaches to working practices that deliver improved outcomes and put the child young person, young adult or family at the centre of practice.
  • Encourage and support practitioners to gain he skills, knowledge attitudes and behaviours that will enable them to actively support each child, young person, young adult and family to achieve their potential in line with the team brief.
  • Inform and improve practice by taking into account and acting on research and developments in relation to the ways in which the needs of children, young people and families are best met.
  • Commitment to the development of relationship based practice to enable practitioners to engage with and intervene in the complexity of an individual’s internal and external worlds and to understand that this relationship is recognised to be an important source of information for the worker to understand how best to help, and simultaneously this relationship is the means by which any help or intervention is offered.
  • Work on a multi-agency basis with a range of professionals, from a wide range of backgrounds across the islands, in order to identify and address barriers to family success and to improve outcomes for those families.
  • To provide management and supervision of the Emergency Out of Hour’s Social Work Service on a rota basis with other Managers in the Directorate.

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 Deputy Team Manager job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.