Team Manager – Child Protection Team

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £74,269per annum.

Main duties:

• To ensure that all Looked After Children’s needs are being met in line with the responsibility of the State of Guernsey’s Corporate Parenting role.
• To be responsible for the organisation, planning and support of the professional activities of team members ensuring that the service objectives are met.
• To ensure work is carried out in accordance with the relevant legislation, policy, guidance and accepted good practice. A key feature of the post will involve improving outcomes for children and young people and being able to demonstrate this within a quality framework.
• To provide line management and professional supervision to the Social Care Professionals within the LAC, ensuring effective management of workloads, appropriate allocation of resources and maintenance of standards of performance.
• Provide guidance to team members on a day to day basis on the management of individual cases and ensure accurate recording and evidence based decision making.
• To implement ongoing performance and development activities so that practitioners are able to provide a good and improving quality of service both on individual and team basis.
• To work in conjunction with colleagues, internal and external to the Directorate, to monitor, evaluate and develop the quality of the services provided and ensure that systems are in place for enabling both staff and service users to make meaningful contributions to the development of the services.
• Undertaking assessments of Looked After Children and Care Leavers and ensuring that Care Plans, Pathway Plans, review documents and other LAC material forms are completed.
• Undertaking Child Protection Investigations for Looked After Children in line with policy and procedures.
• Undertaking and overseeing Court Reports for the Adoption and the Child, Youth and Community Tribunal process in line with policy and procedures.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work of equivalent professional qualification.
• Past Management qualification and experience
• At least 1 years’ experience of supervising professional staff.
• Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation.
• Ability to travel independently to all required areas by the job’s responsibilities.

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.