Team Manager – Children’s Services

Social Work Personnel are hiring for Team Managers to join our client in Hertfordshire. This role is permanent and full time, with an annual salary range of £50,400 – £52,800with a Market Forces Payment of up to £8000 and a £1000 Welcome Payment.
Full description:
This role is to manage a safeguarding team, ensuring that children, young people, carers, and families receive first class specialist assessments and timely support to meet their needs and identify/manage risk. You would be supporting the Service Manager in the development, delivery and review of specialist services for children, young people, their families and carers so that vulnerable children are protected from significant harm, their life chances are maximised and that looked after children or children receiving short breaks are placed in high quality placements with carers who are trained and well supported to meet their needs. The role is to manage the efficient operation of services to ensure the delivery of high quality, high performing, cost effective services to children, young people, families an carers in line with the requirements of national legislation and guidance.

Key Accountabilities:

– Ensuring delivery of Service Plan objectives for the team’s areas of responsibility and delivering results to meet the needs of the service users through effective organisation of the team and monitoring workflow.
– Developing and embedding a performance culture within the team to ensure targets are met and poor performance is effectively managed.
– Maintaining effective systems for monitoring, reviewing and evaluating staff and own performance against the teams objectives within the Service Plan and PMDs. Take appropriate corrective action as necessary.
– Ensuring all staff are trained, supervised, developed and supported to provide the best possible outcomes for children, families and carers, seeking help from more senior managers, HR and Finance colleagues as appropriate.
To manage delegated budgets within the framework of the Scheme of Delegated authority.
– Preparation of monthly budget forecasts for staffing and direct sped of the team’s allocated budgets.
– Undertaking monthly team audits in line with the service’s quality monitoring requirements.

:

– Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant area.
– HCPC Registered.
– You MUST have experience in managing staff and resources within a frontline statutory service.
– Substantial experience in safeguarding and fostering practice in the service area.
– Experience and skills in partnership working across Children’s Services.
– Ability to advise and make decisions on complex cases.
– Sound knowledge and understanding of the statutory framework and current research on effective safeguarding practice.

We regret that if you don’t meet the required criteria, we will not respond to your application due the amount of applications we receive.

If you do not hear from us within two weeks, your application has not been taken to the next stage!

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