Deputy Team Manager - LAC, UASC & Leaving Care Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Deputy Team Manager within the LAC, UASC & Leaving Care Team to work full time based in Harrow.The salary for this permanent Deputy Team Manager job is up to £47,196 per annum.Main duties:

• To be conversant with operational and practice issues pertaining to the delivery of social work to families and children and assist the Team Manager in being accessible and responsive to the Team, and other professionals across the Service, to ensure that children most in need are prioritized and responded appropriately.
• To share responsibility with the Team Manager for undertaking and documenting regular supervision about casework, professional and business issues.
• To ensure that all referrals are responded to in a prompt and timely manner, including conformation of the outcomes sought.
• To ensure that assessments undertaken by self and others, including supervisees, are undertaken in accordance with the Assessment Framework, that they are completed within the statutory timescale and that they include an analysis of the needs and circumstances of each child and family.
• To ensure that every allocated child to supervisees has an up to date outcome focused plan that clearly states the necessary action to be taken, the responsible professionals and the agreed time scale completion.
• To ensure that every allocated child and family to supervisees, are visited and monitored in a manner that meets their particular needs and circumstances and support the work of the social care team.
• To assist the Team Manager in the chairing of necessary and appropriate meetings with Parents/Carers, children/young people and other professionals and ensure that written notes of the outcome and decisions are distributed promptly.
• To manage and support ways in which partnerships with parents/carers can be developed and strengthened so that agreement can be reached about how to make and sustain changes that will secure positive outcome for children and young people.
• To assist the Team Manager in maintaining an overview of all supervised contract arrangements for children looked after in order to help co-ordinate and monitor the activity and quality of the Service Level Agreement, and any other purchasing commitments relating to supervised contact, including transportation and escort arrangements.
• To advice and alert the Team Manager on a need to know basis of any situation that may be contentious, complex, critical or costly to the Team or the Service so that an appropriate risk assessment and management plan can be put in place.
• To represent and/or deputise for the Team Managers as agreed whenever.

Requirements of this Deputy Team Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.
• Experience of management within children’s social care.

Contact:This Deputy Team Manager is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.