Senior Social Work Practitioner - Fostering Team -Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Fostering Support Team to work Full Time based in Southend. The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £58,959 per annum.

• As a Fostering Team Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day delivery of the work of the post approval support provided to Foster Carers and the children and young people in their care.
• Managing a Fostering Team consisting of two Advanced Practitioners, Supervising Social Workers and Support Workers.
• You will set the operational direction, focus and organise the effective running of the service within policy and procedural frameworks.
• To implement service strategy and performance and ensure its contribution to the Council’s objectives.
• To provide formal, professional supervision to staff, ensuring that staff supervision and appraisals are undertaken, identifying skills gaps or training needs, that can be addressed either in house or via external training.
• To ensure that the policies and procedures are adhered to and that the Council fully complies with its statutory requirements. e.g. The National Minimum Standards and Regulations for Fostering & Adoption.
• Monitor performance, standards and quality of work to ensure that the Council complies with policy, procedures and professional standards. Constantly review the performance of the team to ensure that the Council embeds a culture of continuous improvement.
• Ensure that the Fostering Team contribute to and monitor care plans for individuals looked after or in need of protection. Where appropriate, actively managing the most complex and demanding cases. Liaising with other agencies and organisations, collating and analysing information and identifying the most appropriate action.
• To provide specialist Fostering advice to relevant professional panels e.g. the Fostering Panel, ensuring that they are provided with support services to enable their effective operation.
• To work jointly with colleagues across the department and the Council ensuring the provision of an integrated good-quality service.
• Actively manage complaints and refer to appropriate level if unable to resolve.
• To oversee budget allocation for the team and authorise payments to agreed levels, ensuring that the expenditure is kept within the available budget.
• Provide information, reports and analysis as and when required.
• To act as a member of the Group Management Team, attending meeting and contributing to decision/policy making.
• To chair meetings, conferences and reviews as and when required, ensuring that a Multi-Disciplinary approach is adopted and that the needs of individual children are always addressed.
• Deputise for the Service Manager as and when required.

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

This Team Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; 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 to you throughout the process and into your work placement.