Team Manager - MASH Team

Location Gloucester
Job type Permanent
Salary £47,573 - 49,590 per year
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference 202750

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £49,590 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 well-being of the staff and effective use of resources.
  • Develop a clear team plan which links the strategic objectives 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.
  • Provide management oversight on all cases which evidence understanding of risk.
  • Quality assure the work of the team by a range of means including case file audit, DIP sampling, observations, and reflective supervision, and any other means as outlined in the quality assurance framework, and contribute to further developments of the framework.
  • Manage effectively the workflow within social work caseloads to ensure that children and young people’s needs are met appropriately within a timely manner.
  • To have management oversight on strategy meetings, CP conferences and PLO meetings, ensuring the quality and timeliness are achieved.
  • 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.
  • Managing individual performance/tackling under-performance and ensuring members of the team are supervised regularly.
  • Demonstrate clear decision making, and problem solving to ensure effective risk management, planning and good outcomes for children and their families.
  • Ensuring all decision making is recorded on the child’s file.
  • 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.
  • Manage complaints effectively and ensuring complaints are resolved as quickly as possible and ensuring responses to complaints are of good quality and reflect understanding of the customer issues and in line with council procedures.

Requirements of this role:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.