Assistant Team Manager, Fostering Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Assistant Team Manager within the Fostering Team to work full time for Fostering Innovations, based in Uxbridge, London.

The salary for this permanent Assistant Team Manager job is up to £48,000per annum.

Main duties:

• To liaise regularly with the Fostering Registered Manager, Team Manager and Practice Manager on any practice issues.
• To maintain the agency's high standards, in order to promote positive outcomes for children and young people, and ensure that social work, foster care practice continues to achieve high grades in Ofsted inspections.
• Along with the Team Manager, develop a regular programme of auditing fostering casefiles, and prepare regular reports in this respect, identifying areas for development,
• To work closely with the Directors, Registered Manager, Team Manager & Panel Chair to create fostering panel schedules.
• To contribute towards the development and review of the agency's policies and procedures.
• To provide effective and efficient support to Fostering Team staff, by ensuring compliance with statutory requirements in order to meet national policies and standards.
• To lead the Foster Carer recruitment task under the direction of the Directors, Team Manager and Practice Manager for an effective running of the service.
• Provide analytical reports that identify practice themes, trends and suggestions for development.
• To promote learning and development in the workforce and contribute to the development and delivery of training across the workforce.
• To work closely with the Directors and Managers to establish and maintain relationships with local authorities and contribute to planning and developing the service in line with customers changing needs.
• To undertake mandatory safeguarding training in relation to their work with children and young people.
• To provide timely safeguarding monitoring information to the Directors, and Ofsted, as required.
• To ensure all data is recorded accurately, timely, up to date and in a non-discriminatory manner.
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, which may include occasional evenings and weekends.

Requirements of this Assistant Team Manager Job.

• Degree or Equivalent in Social Work.
• Current Social Work England Registration.
• Post Qualifying Social Work Experience.

Contact:
This Assistant 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.