Team Manager - Locality Team

Location Gloucester
Job type Permanent
Salary £56,498 - 58,515 per year
Consultant Keir Turnbull
Call +44 7700 161043
Reference 210178

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £58,515 per annum.

Main duties:

  • Lead and provide day to day management of the team, providing appropriate support, personal development review and performance management to ensure the delivery of high quality services, the safety and wellbeing of the staff and effective use of resources.
  • Develop a clear team plan which links the strategic objective of the organisation, local improvements in performance and learning from complaints.
  • Provide monthly supervision which is reflective but provides clear direction and challenge and prevent drift and delay in the child’s journey.
  • Manage effectively the workflow within social work caseloads to ensure that children and young people’s needs are met appropriately in a timely manner.
  • Make use of performance data and lead on the management and monitoring of team performance, holding performance clinics to improve operational outcomes in the team.
  • Chair a range of meetings as required ensuring high quality decision making for users of the service.
  • Demonstrate clear decision-making, and problem solving to ensure effective risk management, planning and good outcomes for children and their families.
  • Develop quality relationships with internal and external stakeholders ensuring the best outcomes are achieved for children and young people.
  • Make clear decisions around threshold for cases that are part of a legal planning meeting, strategy decisions, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated.
  • Lead and provide a culture of continuous professional development, keeping up to date with government guidance and legislation and evidence-based practice.
  • Support, promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people.
  • Lead on all people management areas of work including human resources and SAP responsibilities.

Requirements of this Team Manager role:

  • A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Extensive experience working in a statutory social care setting with children and families.
  • Experience of managing a team of professionals which demonstrates inspirational leadership, reflective supervision, and staff development. Registered or eligible for registration.
  • The post holder must hold a clear and valid driving licence or have the ability to travel around the County.

Contact:

This Team Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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