Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Family Solutions Plus Team to work part time based in Oxfordshire.
The salary for this permanent Part Time Team Manager job is up to £32,361 per annum.
Main duties:
- Ensuring that the Council performs its statutory duties to assess, support and safeguard children, young people and their families.
- Ensuring that effective arrangements are in place to secure the wellbeing and health & safety of all team employees.
- Supporting the development of the Council’s policies, processes, practices and systems in respect of the Family Safeguarding Model, contributing to and ensuring that they are current, of a high standard, conform to best practice, comply with relevant legislation and meet Council requirements.
- Taking responsibility for ensuring that plans for children are implemented in accordance with statutory and Council requirments and timescales.
- Ensuring that all team members keep abreast of the Council’s changing legal and statutory obligations to children and families.
- To ensure the team has in place appropriate systems and procedures to prioritise and manage demands on the service by allocating staff and resources appropriately, in accordance with social care assessed need and OCC policies.
- Keeping abreast of changes to policy and procedures and plan for consequent changes to services.
- Ensuring that team staff engage and build positive relationships with children, young people and families to ensure that their needs are at the heart of the delivery of services.
- Promoting restorative and relationship-based practice, including preventing changes of social worker or children’s practitioner for children and families wherever possible.
- Promoting continual service improvement to contribute to improved life chances for children, young people and their families through effective quality assurance of casework.
- Undertaking monthly audits in line with the service’s quality assurance requirments.
- Building and promoting successful partnership working across agencies and with children and young people and their families, to deliver cost effective and valued services.
- Developing and embedding a performance culture within the team, to ensure targets are met and poor performance in effectively managed; monitoring the team’s performance with reference to local and key performance indicators for children’s social care services, using relevant performance and statistical reports as required.
- Provide positive leadership, acting with openness, honesty and integrity, and instilling a clear sense of direction, priority, pace and leading people in an inclusive way to deliver strategic and operational objectives.
- Key tasks and accountabilities are intended to be a guide to the range and level of work expected of the post holder.
Requirements of this Team Manager job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Part Time Team Manager job is advertised by Edwin Mhende; 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.
