Team Manager - Children with Disabilities Team

Location Redbridge
Job type Permanent
Salary £59,328 - 61,617 per year
Reference 213374

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £61,617 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To provide leadership, management and professional guidance to a team of social workers and manage the development of skilled and confident practitioners.
  • To ensure the delivery of high quality delivery of social work services which safeguard children, promote positive outcomes and are responsive, timely and within statutory guidelines.
  • Be responsible for ensuring that the ensuring that the council meets its statutory obligations to safeguard children and promote their welfare by complying with legislation, policy and procedures and relevant frameworks.
  • The role of the Team Manager is to provide leadership for the Practice Managers within their service. In a challenging and pressurised environment with competing priorities ensuring the effective delivery of high-quality children’s services in the Redbridge Children & Families Service.
  • The Team Manager is accountable to the Service Manager for the day to day management and supervision of their team.
  • The Team Manager is to ensure a high quality of practice with children, young people and families, which is of a consistently high quality, whilst effectively managing risk, cost effectiveness and improved outcomes for children.
  • Working with the Service Manager, set key performance targets to achieve timely and positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
  • To be responsible for the management and ongoing development of services to support Children & Families in delivering and improving services to children and families. This involves personally undertaking policy work, managing the effective local delivery and commissioning of services.
  • As Team Manager you will take responsibility of developing the stability and practice of the team and provide support, challenge and mentoring to the Practice Managers.
  • To be responsible for the management and contribution of local service development projects. Including the operational progression of the Service Strategies and Departmental Business Plans, ensuring objectives, targets and standards are being progressed.
  • To lead and take responsibility for strategic direction of service delivery and delivery of innovate interventions.

Requirements of this Team Manager role:

  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Substantial experience in health or social care.

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.