Team Manager, Family Help Service

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Family Help Service to work Full Time based in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £68,515 per annum.

Main duties:

• To manage a team of staff, including recruitment/retention, induction, training and development, performance management, disciplinary/capability, and succession planning.
• To manage the allocation of workload across the team to agreed service priorities, actively monitor, review, and authorise case records and plans, addressing any workload management, performance, and/or quality issues as they arise.
• To chair reviews, planning meetings, strategy discussions and other professional/network meetings.
• To develop and maintain effective internal and external working relationships and professional networks, ensure a positive working relationship within the team, promoting strategies for collaboration and a supportive team culture.
• To assure the quality, effectiveness and appropriateness of social work provided by the team, ensuring that all social work intervention is conducted in accordance with legislative requirements, the Department’s Practice Standards, all relevant policies and procedures and agreed performance targets.
• To highlight areas of best practice and embed this learning across the team and wider through the division.
• To ensure that all information systems and case records across the team are of high quality and are up to date, support good practice and maintain a focus on positive outcomes for children and their families.
• To embed the learning from audits into the practice of the team performance management.
• To anticipate and positively manage change in the social work environment drawing on practice information, data and analysis, ensure that the team is aware of changing trends and national policy that impact on service users.
• To lead the development and implementation of innovative ways of working, taking into account research and experience from own and other services.
• To promote and, where appropriate, lead the development of strategy/services/policies for specialist field, initiate and undertake research in own field.
• The profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the duties the post holder will carry out. Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.

Requirements of this Team Manager role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Relevant Social Work experience.

Contact:

This Team Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.