Team Manager – Safeguarding & Support

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

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £51,249 per annum.

Main duties:

• To have full responsibility for the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers, in line with legislation, guidance and local policy and procedures.
• To make highly complex decisions relating to social service provision for children, young people and their families within Dudley.
• To manage allocation of work in accordance with priorities, ensuring that assessments, care plans and reviews are implemented where required and ensure that all statutory timescales are met.
• To work collaboratively with partner agencies, within the children, s division and in the voluntary sector to ensure multi-agency assessment, planning, intervention, and review.
• To negotiate the provision of services with voluntary and external agencies that supports the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers.
• To contribute to the management of services as a member of the Children’s Services Management Team.
• To promote effective internal and external communication.
• To chair and participate in working groups, task groups, permanency planning and to be fully involved in Service Planning, Team Meetings, over seeing the Care Plans for children you are corporately responsibility for.
• To ensure the requirements of appropriate childcare legislation and guidance are understood by all members of staff. This should be disseminated during team meetings and within supervision.
• To monitor and review effective workload management and to ensure performance management/quality of case work is being maintained.
• To contribute to the development and implementation of the Service Plan.
• To monitor the performance of staff through regular supervision, observations of practice and Appraisal.
• To be accountable for own progression in career development by learning through training opportunities and both personal and professional development opportunities.
• To work with colleagues to recruit and select staff in the Children’s Services division in accordance with the Council’s procedures in respect of safer recruitment.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

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

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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.