Team Manager: Safeguarding and Support

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Safeguarding and Support Team to work full time based in Dudley.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £52,145 per annum.

Main duties:

• Responsible for the leadership and management of a social work team, ensuring that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard and promote their welfare
• Actively promote and contribute to the strategic developments for children and their families in Dudley
• Responsible over: Assistant Team Managers, Social Workers, ASYE’s, Trainee Social Workers and Young Person’s Advisors
• To have full responsibility for the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers, in line with legislation, guidance and local policy and procedures
• To make highly complex decisions relating to social service provision for children, young people and their families within Dudley
• To manage allocation of work in accordance with priorities, ensuring that assessments, care plans and reviews are implemented where required and ensure that all statutory timescales are met
• To work collaboratively with partner agencies, within the children’s division and in the voluntary sector to ensure multi-agency assessment, planning, intervention and review
• To negotiate the provision of services with voluntary and external agencies that supports the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers
• To contribute to the management of services as a member of the Children’s Services Management Team
• To promote effective internal and external communication
• To chair and participate in working groups, task groups, and to be fully involved in Service planning, Child Protection Conferences and associated review processes.
• To ensure the requirements of appropriate childcare legislation and guidance are understood by all members of staff. This should be disseminated during team meetings and within supervision
• To monitor and review effective workload management and to ensure performance management / quality of case work is being maintained
• To contribute to the development of the Service Plan

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• A social work qualification or equivalent
• Experience of managing social care services for children and families
• Experience of providing supervision, and consultation
• Significant experience in providing social care services for children and families
• Experience of being involved in cultural and organisational change in complex organisations
• Experience of being involved in developing and monitoring services
• Experience of being involved in partnerships/inter-agency working
• Understanding of relevant legislation
• Continual professional development
• Social Work England registered

Contact:

This Team Manager job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.

Global Healthcare Jobs 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.