Team Manager, Kinship Team - Slough - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Kinship Team to work Full Time based in Slough.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £62,585per annum.

• To oversee the distribution of caseloads to ensure that the child or young person's needs are met appropriately.
• Make clear decisions around threshold for cases that are part of legal planning meetings, strategy decisions, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated and decisions are recorded on the casefile.
• Carry out regular quality-assurance activities including observations, case reviews, team and support their professional development, improve the consistency of practice and seek the views of families.
• Attend Head of Service Performance clinics with a clear narrative for performance in their team and actions to be undertaken to address areas for development.
• Responsible for the regular and effective appraisal of staff performance through Slough Children First's appraisal process in order to provide clear direction and challenge to prevent drift and delay.
• As part of Quality Assurance activities, ensure that there is effective direct work undertaken with all children and young people with the voice of the child clearly recorded on casefiles.
• Leads team meetings to a high standard, ensuring that service and corporate messages are cascaded to the team in a timely way and supporting effective two-way communications back up to managers from the team.
• Assist and encourage the professional development of the Assistant Team Manager, providing them with opportunities to grow and develop to become Team Managers.
• Maintain own professional development through training and other suitable mechanisms and keep up to date with changes in national, regional and local policy initiatives that will impact on the delivery of services and respond accordingly.
• Supports the Assistant Team Manager to make effective day-to-day use of all available professional resources, addressing barriers and issues across Slough Children First and with Partners where required through the development and maintenance of professional links with partner agencies and the voluntary sector, whilst supporting the links of the Assistant Team Manager.
• Manage the complaints relating to your team effectively and to a high standard in line with Slough Children Firsts complaints procedure ensuring they are dealt with promptly and feedback/learning from complaints is delivered back to the team.
• Ensure all interventions are conducted within an anti-discriminatory framework, and take into account issues such as race, gender, sexuality, disability etc, and deliver appropriate services to the diverse communities of Slough.
• Deputise for the Head of Service, undertake projects and other additional duties, as required. To undertake work outside office hours as necessary.

Requirements of this Team Manager role:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience of Managing a Team of Qualified & Unqualified Social Workers.

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.

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