Team Manager - North Family Support Team

Location Milton Keynes
Job type Permanent
Salary £55,183 - 58,619 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call 07458161360
Reference 192708

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the North Family Support Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £58,619 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To ensure that all children in need, in need of protection, and/or in care are safeguarded and heir well-being is promoted effectively, through the application of specialist theory, practical and procedural knowledge.
  • To ensure a range of interventions appropriate to the needs of the families are provided to support children in need and at risk to live safely within their family wherever possible.
  • To lead and facilitate partnership working with key agencies, ensuring best possible outcomes for children.
  • A team consisting of deputy team managers, social workers and social work assistants is effectively manged and supervised, and casework is allocated and monitored across the team’s area of responsibility. To comply with the standards set out by he professional body Social Work England.
  • Assessments, care planning and case work reviews are conducted in line with legislation, and agreed national standards, performance targets and regulatory requirements are met.
  • To utilise detailed and complex analysis from highly complex information and from a variety of sources and quality to underpin creative short-and long term solutions in highly complex and risky situations.
  • To make and be responsible for appropriate decisions and exercise initiative with a view to safeguarding children only referring to a more senior level where there are significant resource and policy issues or matters of a particularly sensitive or complex nature.
  • The designated team budgets are effectively and creatively managed to ensure that every pound spent, and staff and resources used, delivers the most benefit to children and families.
  • Staff performance conforms to the required professional and performance standards, including full electronic recording of work on ICS.

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 Team Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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.