Job Description
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Social Work Team Leader within the Disabled Children’s Team to work full time for Achieving for Children, based in Kingston.
The salary for this permanent Social Work Team Leader job is up to £59,172 per annum.
Main duties:
- The Team Leader will be responsible for managing Senior Practitioner, Social Workers and Family Support Workers.
- They will provide the operational management and leadership support across the service and support the Head of Service.
- The post holder will ensure that high levels of quality interventions, effective case management oversight, decision making and overall performance is undertaken in the best interests of children, young people and their families by using AFC’s social work practice model, Signs of Safety, agreed quality standards and operating procedures.
- Their role will include representing the service at operational, strategic, multi-agency , and others meetings as appropriate.
- The Team Leader will support the team’s professional development and have a string understanding of how to maximise productivity, performance and achieve the best outcomes for children, young people and their families alongside the workforce’s development.
- They will be expected to develop and lead a culture of partnership and innovation, so that services are child focussed, flexible and adaptable.
- The whole organisation should learn from mistakes, share knowledge and challenge existing practice.
Requirements of this Social Work Team Leader role:
- A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.
Contact:
This Social Work Team Leader job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; 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.