Practice Manager – Fostering & Adoption Team

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £67,874 per annum.

Main duties:

• Plan and organise case co-ordination for a team of Social Work staff, and oversee the implementation of care and protection to ensure prompt identification and follow up of cases takes place where social work intervention is required.
• Under the guidance of the Team Manager, the Practice Manager will be responsible for the day to day direction of Social Work staff, providing supervision, guidance, coaching and mentoring necessary for each team member to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct.
• Support staff to holistically assess individual needs and develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people, families and carers.
• Support staff to holistically assess individual needs and develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor the safety and welfare of children, young people, families carers.
• Deliver appropriate, open, accurate and straightforward communication to children, young people, families and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work teams including any statutory intervention which may prove necessary.
• Guide and support Social Work staff, children, young people, families and carers in challenging and reporting dangerous, abusive, discriminatory or exploitative behaviour or practice, including potential criminal offences, in order to ensure the wellbeing of children, young people, families and carers is safeguarded at all times.
• Implement and monitor data protection and confidentiality policies to ensure that all information about children, young people, families and carers is always treated by Social Work staff and other staff in the strictest confidence in line with data protection, relevant disclosure and consent policies, and information sharing protocols and procedures.
• Deliver formal professional reflective supervision and provide guidance and advice regarding casework to less experienced qualified staff.
• Engage in the rotation programme in Children’s Service to ensure expertise in all areas across the department.

Requirements of this role:

• A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Proven experience within management.

Contact:

This Team Manager job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.