Team Manager: Assessment Team

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager  job is up to £49,590 per annum.

Main duties:

• Work across children’s social care, other council departments and multi-agency organisations to develop effective relationships with partners, to effectively deliver services to children young people and their families which safeguard children and promote their care within families where appropriate.
• Communicate effectively in a range of forums, and in at times highly charged, complex or challenging circumstances directorate policy, best practice guidelines, and plans/decisions regarding the deployment of resources/outcomes for children and young people.
• Work collaboratively with management colleagues to develop and maintain an effective service to children and young people and their families, contributing to policy, procedures and guidance informing practice.
• Provide directly and indirectly supervision to staff (including non – social work qualified staff) within a team, informed by knowledge of statutory/regulatory and operational standards, policy, and procedures within the directorate and wider council.
• Support staff to meet their full potential as effective practitioners, ensuring through use of published guidance associated with managing performance, professional development, staff appraisal, managing attendance etc. that an effective, high performing team is delivering services children, young people and their carers benefit form.
• Ensure that up to date records are maintained safety and confidentiality in accordance with the directorate/council policies and procedures, and contribute to the audit, evaluation and analysis of social care records which enables performance within the service to be understood and responded to by managers including this post holder.
• Promote effective assessment, direct work and risk management which achieves best outcomes for children and young people within a safeguarding context.
• Meet the requirements of the professional capabilities framework at the advanced level, and of registration with the health care professions council in respect of practice standards, conduct and professional development.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

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.