Assistant Team Manager – Children with Disabilities

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

The salary for this permanent Assistant Team Manager job is up to £53,587 per annum.

Main duties:

• Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
• Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
• Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
• Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used in response to the presenting needs.
• Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
• Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations including positive risk taking situations.
• Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
• Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
• Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
• Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
• Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individuals development and ensure that individuals contributions are maximised.
• Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.
• Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
• Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
• Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.
• When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.

Requirements of this Assistant Team Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Assistant 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, 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.