Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Fostering Team to work full time for Fostering innovation, based in Uxbridge.
The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £59,000 per annum.
Main duties:
- To manage a team of Assistant Team Manager, Practice Manager and Supervising Social Worker.
- To manage a high-quality fostering service ensuring that comprehensive support services and robust supervising is provided to all foster carers.
- To supervise and manage a staff team, including social workers and other social work staff, providing support, supervision and advice.
- To maintain the agency’s high standards, in order to promote positive outcomes for children and young people, and ensure that social work and foster care practice continues to achieve ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’ in Ofsted inspections.
- To manage a team of Assistant Team Manager, Practice Manager and Supervising Social Workers.
- To promote learning and development in the workforce and contribute to the development and delivery of training across the workforce.
- To contribute towards the development and review of Agency policies and procedures and keep them updated at all times.
- To work closely with the Directors, Social Workers and Foster Carers to establish, develop and maintain productive working relationships.
- To commit to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and protecting them from risk of harm. The agency recognises its responsibility to ensure safe and appropriate policies, working practices and systems are in place for all staff working with children and young people.
- To provide timely safeguarding monitoring information to the Directors, and Ofsted, as required.
- To safeguard the confidentiality of information relating to carers, children and young people at all times in accordance with agency policies and procedures and government guidelines.
- To ensure all data is recorded accurately, timely, up to date and in a non-discriminatory manner.
Requirements of this Team Manager role:
- A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Relevant managing experience.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
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.
