Social Work Team Manager- Fostering Team

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £50,000 annum.

Main Duties:

• To supervise Supervising Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, foster carers (when necessary) and other staff as are assigned and to ensure that they are informed of and fully comply with, all standards, policies and guidance, including safer caring guidelines, agreed by GLF.
• To supervise the work of staff undertaking the updating of existing foster carers assessments and to ensure that the assessment reports on their suitability to meet the standard required by the Agency’s panel.
• To participate in the design and delivery of training for staff, foster carers and potential foster carers.
• To determine, prioritise and monitor workload and assign task to appropriate staff.
• To provide assistance to staff in helping carers to solve problems arising from placement such as finance, equipment and transport and to represent the views of staff and carers to the registered manager and directors.
• To undertake staff appraisals and to assist in the carer development of staff, by establishing training needs with them and making plans to meet these.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

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

Benefits:

• Diverse Training Programme.
• Have your birthday off.
• Ability to work from home.
• Team meals.
• AYSE.

Contact:
This 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.