Team Manager - Children in Care Team

Location Haringey
Job type Permanent
Salary £53,946 - 57,102 per year
Reference 201278

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,102 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To be responsible for the management of the team and ensure that the service provided is of the highest professional standard and is responsive to legislative requirements as well as corporate and national priorities.
  • To be responsible for all the work held within the team and to ensure that it is prioritised and allocated promptly within the available resources.
  • To ensure the team’s record keeping is maintained to a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks.
  • To chair a range of practice meetings, including strategy meeting, core group meetings, monitoring the performance of agreed tasks for all participants.
  • To provide regular, high quality, challenging and reflective supervision of staff within agreed timescales and according to the departmental policy.
  • To be responsible for evaluating staff performance, including conducting probationary assessments, performance appraisals, sickness absence procedures and any other relevant procedures.
  • To facilitate and direct as necessary partnership with parents, carers, other professionals and partner agencies to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.
  • To develop a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies, children and their families and to enable children to stay safely at home wherever possible.
  • To authorise, monitor and review financial commitments ensuring they meet children’s needs, are within costs limits, adhere to Best Value principles and to contribute to the identification if any resource shortages and efficiencies.
  • To implement the service business plan, ensuring that team members are clear about their individual and collective contribution towards achieving the objectives, targets, targets and standards contained within it and to manage performance against these.
  • To undertake all work activities ensuring that the Council’s policies (including Equalities) are adhered to and that the organisational values are upheld.
  • To take the lead role for defined areas of service, to deputise for their line manager, to ensure that all decision are taken at an appropriate level and senior managers informed of identified risk, as and when necessary.
  • To undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required and assigned by the service.

Requirements of this role:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • A recognised management qualification or evidence of participation on an organisational leadership or management development programme.
  • Past experience in a management position with past experience in managing a team.
  • Understanding, knowledge and ability to follow guidelines to ensure compliance with Health & Safety at Work, Data Protection and other statutory requirements.
  • This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.