Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company to the private and public sector has a locum vacancy for a Social Work Team Manager to work full time based in Wandsworth, within the Children’s Safeguarding Team.
The pay rate for this locum Team Manager job is £45.00 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.
Duties:
- Manage a team that will work with and support vulnerable adolescents and their families, with a particular focus in the area of child exploitation
- Work as part of the management team in Families & Communities Safeguarding Service within one of the Vulnerable Adolescent Children in Need teams
- Focus on interventions primarily with those young people experiencing adolescent exploitation including but not limited to; providing services to young people and their families affected by going missing from home or care, criminal exploitation, sexual exploitation, serious youth violence, harmful sexual behaviour and gang affiliation
- Working with the Service Manager to manage the delivery and performance of high-quality social work provision to children and their families across the Team
- Working with the Service Manager to drive quality practice in the team including using research and theoretical models to support good practice, and use management information and audit findings to identify where the team or individual practice is excellent and can be shared with other staff
- Ensure effectively and contribute to the MARVE and the inter-related processes including, ensuring robust risk mitigation plans and appropriate review of risk to ensure robust oversight of the vulnerable adolescent cohort within the team and across the Children in Need service
- Manage one of the education outreach workers to ensure vulnerabilities around education, employment and training are supported
Requirements of the Team Manager:
- A recognised and relevant professional social work qualification (Degree / Diploma in Social Work)
- Registered on Social Work England
- Management experience
- Significant knowledge of the use of theories and direct tools for working with children and young people, such as AMBIT, DDP, Systemic and restorative practices in order to successfully support staff in achieving positive impact and outcomes for vulnerable adolescents and their families
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Daily payroll
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place after 100 hours of work has been completed
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support with a specialist safeguarding team
- In-house payroll system
- A free digital copy of the Social Work News Magazine
Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Jonathan Codona-Brown; 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.
