Job Description
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 600+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based in Southwark.
Team/Specialism:Access to Resources Placements
Pay Rate:To be confirmed
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
- Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
- Access to our online career’s hub
Main Duties:
- To oversee and manage the delivery of all functions related to the placing ofchildren with suitable foster carers; develop and manage the staff and systems that support the successful matching of children with carers who can meet their needs, including placements for permanence.
- To develop and extend support services to maximise stability, prevent placement breakdown and retain foster carers.
- Work proactively within the Placements Team to ensure all children are placed in suitable placements, monitoring referral patterns and use of Independent Fostering Agencies(IFAs), and ensure that senior managers are alerted to any risks or threats in relation to sufficiency.
- To develop and manage systems that track all referrals, placements, placement moves and endings, and ensure that high quality management information is available to assist in the planning and review of the service.
- Provide high quality management information for a day to day overview of placement capacity and need as well as to assist in the ongoing planning and review of the Placements Team and use of placements in IFAs.
- Ensure that the Placements Team has a clear statement of purpose and set of practice standards, and these are known and understood by all stakeholders (carers, social workers, managers, HR etc.)
- To deliver a responsive and efficient service alongside the Fostering Service: ensure that all parties involved in the referral and placement process are kept fully informed when placements are made, and that children’s views are taken into account.
- Put systems in place to ensure foster carers are paid promptly and that any additional or special payments are processed in a fair and transparent way, in keeping with the operating principles of the Fostering Payment Policy.
- Track and maintain an overview of all children waiting for placements and monitor progress on identifying suitable carers. Alert senior managers to any corporate threat or risks relating to the council’s sufficiency strategy.
- Ensure that information systems are fit for purpose and that high quality management information can be produced for a range of indicators. Use management information to inform planning and reviewing the sufficiency strategy.
- Ensure the best use is made of Southwark’s fostering resources, keeping use of external placements to a minimum and promoting the use of Friends and Family Placements as far as possible.
- Keep abreast of local and national changes to best practice when securing placement’s options for children and young people including legislative changes and Ofsted guidance.
- Provide placement briefings to senior management when requested.
- To attend care planning and financial decision making/tracking panels as required
Requirements of the Team Manager:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Recent managerial experience, working as a TM, DTM or ATM etc.
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
Contact: This Team Manager job is advertised by Michael Bowen; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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.