Team Manager – Looked After Children Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager, Looked After Children Team  to work full time based in Hull.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £48,587

Main Duties:

• Responsible for the performance and practice of the team
• Prioritise the quality of practice balanced alongside a focus on a set of agreed performance measures, based on statutory and inspection requirements
• Drive key service and directorate wide priorities and ensure that the team is fully informed and engaged within its wider context – a directorate, a council and a wider partnership
• Lead and drive key aspects of partnership working
• Work in partnership with colleagues, parents and carers to ensure that child centred, purposeful systemic practice is the standard for all social work and related practice
• Routinely seek feedback from children, young people and families through Quality Assurance work, learning from complaints and compliments received
• Set a tone which listens and values user feedback, whilst ensuring that feedback is shared and escalated when appropriate, to influence service design and improvement
• Complete routine Quality Assurance work in order to ensure that learning is embedded within team culture and practice, including case audits, observation of practice & Feedback from Children, Young People and Families
• Monitor practice and individual / team performance using a Performance Dashboard and other Performance Reports
• Prioritise performance management tasks and approach them in a way which sets a tone of continuous improvement, learning and development

Requirements of this job:

• Social Work Degree or equivalent (DipSW, CQSW, CSS)
• Social Work England (SWE) Registration
• Knowledge of UK legislation relevant to children and families
• Experience of working with children, young people, and their families

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from social worker, senior social worker, advanced practitioner, senior practitioner, deputy team manager, team manager, service manager, head of service and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

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.

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews.