Social work Team manager - Children looked after

Our client Shropshire council are looking for a Social work Team manager to join their Children looked after service.

• Driving Licence Required: TM's may need to visit families with the SW as required and chair meetings in person

Working/ Hybrid Arrangements:

• Office based one day per week
• Face to face team meetings on a monthly basis
• Face to face managers meetings once per month
• Quarterly directors assurance face to face
• There may be additional times that the team manager needs to travel for case purposes such as chairing meetings in person, attending court etc.

Job responsibilites

• To provide management cover to an additional capacity team with responsibility for looked after children.
• Supervise a team of 7 social workers, meeting the requirement for all children to receive supervision on a 4 weekly basis.
• To chair multi-agency meetings in relation to permanence planning and risk management, providing comprehensive management oversight to progress young people's plans.
• To progress plans of SGO or discharges of care order, working with legal services to ensure this is progressed in a timely way.
• To quality assure key documents and assessments in a timely manner as part of care planning regulations and to meet the needs of the service.
• To provide performance oversight for the team...