Permanent Jobs in Rochester, england, united kingdom

Team Manager - Children with Disabilities Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children with Disabilities Team to work Full Time based in Medway.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £64,198 per annum.

• To line manage, support and coach a team of experienced social workers responsible for safeguarding and promoting the best interests of disabled children and disabled young adults to achieve their full potential.
• To contribute towards delivering the council's vision for Children's Social Care in order to ensure the objectives and priorities are realised.
• Promote and develop effective partnership working with other Council Services and partner agencies to ensure efficient delivery of the service.
• Lead, manage and motivate a staff team, ensuring high quality professional supervision and performance development plans are completed which enhance individuals' personal and professional development needs and contributes towards staff retention.
• Manage and oversee the performance of the team effectively using available team performance data to monitor standards and performance and ensure compliance with practice standards and procedures.
• Contribute to the management of staffing budget for the team by approving and committing expenditure within your delegated authority, and monitoring and reporting commitments in order to ensure budget is not exceeded.
• Support the safer recruitment and selection of new staff, both within the team and across Children's Social Care in order to ensure staffing levels are maintained.
• Provide an effective service to disabled children, young people and their families ensuring assessments, statutory visits and planned reviews are completed to a high standard and in accordance with statutory timescales.
• Allocate cases within the statutory timescale ensuring focused plans are in place and regularly reviewed.
• Supervise students on placement and Newly Qualified Social Workers in their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment, where appropriate.
• Keep up to date with the Council's organisational policies, government guidance, legislation, research and national trends in order to maintain the highest professional standards.
• Deputise and support the Group Manager where necessary on all aspects relating to the development of the service, and cover for other Team Managers where appropriate.

Requirements of this Team Manager role :

Contact :

This Team Manager role is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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, Sanctuary Personnel 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.

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.

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