Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is currently looking for a dedicated and experienced Social Work Service Manager to work based in Bexley, within the Looked After Children Team.
The salary for this permanent Social Work Service Manager role is £68,000 per annum.
Main Duties:
- Responsible for supervising, leading, and supporting a team of social work practitioners, personal advisors, and support staff within a statutory service area (ie. Child in need, child protection, children looked after, young adults leaving care).
- Responsible for risk management and decision making within service area.
- Responsible for risk management and decision making within the team.
- Ensure that timely response and action is carried out by the team to any referrals, contacts, allocations, complaints, information requests, child protection enquiries, court directives received, and plans for children.
- Liaise, network, influence, and coordinate with other multi-agency partners to provide the best level of multi-disciplinary support to the children and families we work with.
- Have oversight on the work carried out within the teams of the service, ensuring that timely response and action is carried out to any contacts, referrals, allocations, complaints, information requests, child protection enquiries, court directives received, and plans for children.
- Maintain regular supervision and appraisal of worker performance in the team that includes case management oversight, timely decision making, the effective implementation of pathway plans, reflective space, respectful challenge, recognising areas of good and bas practice, and supports the ongoing learning and development of workers.
- Work within the Council’s policies, procedures, values, and code of conduct at all time and to ensure you and the service reflect these when carrying out professional responsibilities with members of the public.
- Authorise, review, and manage expenditures within the prescribed budget so that a good balance is struck between supporting what is in the best interest of the child and spending public funds in the most responsible, effective, and efficient manner.
- Promote and support the use of the Signs of Safety solution-focused practice principles in all work undertaken within the team and in decision making.
Requirements of the Social Work Service Manager:
- Degree or equivalent in social work.
- Current Social Work England registration.
- Recent post-qualification experience within frontline social work.
- Extensive previous management or supervisory responsibilities of other practitioners working with children and families, and some experience supervising other managers.
- Have a good understanding of and ability to use IT systems, such as case recording systems (Liquid Logic), word processing, email, calendars, internet search engines, computers, mobile phones, and secure remote working systems.
Contact:
This Social Work Service Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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.
