Social Work Assistant Team Manager - Referral & Assessment

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Assistant Team Manager within the Referral & Assessment Team to work full time based in Slough.

Main duties:

* As a member of the Trust's management team, provide day to day management of the team, providing appropriate support and challenge to ensure the delivery of high-quality services that safeguard the welfare of children and young people.

* Make effective day to day use of all available professional resources and use a range of theoretical, evidence based and practical approaches including systemic practice to develop and implement effective interventions and support for children and families both within and outside of the family home.

* Manage the distribution of caseloads to ensure that the child or young person's needs are met appropriately.

* Support and challenge the team to meet the requirements around thresholds for cases, managing the preparation of high quality reports for court or other purposes, challenging, providing expert advice to guide the team through legal and organisational processes as required.

* Support and challenge the team in the completion of assessments, plans, toolkits based on identified need, ensuring at each point risk is evaluated, decisions and management oversight are recorded on the case file and any issues or concerns are escalated to the Team Manager to address.

* Chair the first and transfer core groups and CIN meetings to a high standard, supporting social workers in further meetings as required.

* Co-work complex cases with team members as required without taking on a specific caseload of their own.

* Supervise social workers and non qualified staff in the team as per the Trusts supervision policy, supporting and supervising social work students, acting as a mentor to support them through their professional training.

* Lead hub/group supervision to a high standard ensuring that all members are aware of progress on cases.

* Promote direct work with children and young people, supporting all members of the team to actively seek the views of children and families to inform practice in assessment and planning in individual cases.

* Participate in quality assurance activities to support professional development of staff and improve the consistency of practice.

* Support the Team Manager to tackle under-performance, sickness absence and conduct both informally and formally and within the Trust's policy framework.

* Contribute to the Trust's development with knowledge of an area of specialist practice and to provide consultation, coaching and mentoring within the Team, and across the service as a whole as required.

* Develop and maintain own professional links and leads with partner agencies and the voluntary sector and support those of the Team Manager.

* Maintain own professional development through training and other suitable mechanisms and keep up to date with changes in national, regional and local policy initiatives that will impact on the delivery of services and respond accordingly.

* Represent the Trust's values, leading by example in the delivery of these and setting a positive culture within your team, service and the Trust; challenge behaviour when it is not aligned with our values and take appropriate action; support a professional in a respectful; and child-focused environment which supports the Trust's vision.

Requirements of this Senior Social Worker job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Continual professional development.

* Social Work England registered.

Contact:

This Senior Social Worker job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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. 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.

Sanctuary 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, Sanctuary 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