Team Manager - Swindon Assessment Service - Maternity Cover (approx.14 months)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Swindon's Assessment Service as Team Manager.
We are looking for someone with relevant experience who would be interested and excited to manage a team of 4 Assistant Team Managers, 20 Social Workers, 4 Family Support Practitioners and Students.
This is a great time to work as part of a team invested in delivering high quality assessments, intervention and support to children and their families.
The role provides an opportunity to become part of a team who are committed to improving outcomes for children and their families.
Main duties:
* To lead, manage and motivate a staff team ensuring high quality supervision of the Assistant Team Managers is completed on a monthly basis.
* To drive timely decision making, the effective implementation of children's plans and transfers to early help and long term safeguarding services.
*To recognise areas of practice which are good, and where practice requires improvement through audit, chair team meetings and develop learning opportunities that support the ongoing learning and development of workers.
* Effectively use available team performance data to monitor standards and performance and ensure compliance with practice standards and procedures. Provide clear performance reports to monitor service progress.
* Contribute to the management of the staffing budget for the team by approving and committing expenditure within your delegated authority, and monitoring and reporting commitments in order to ensure budget is not exceeded.
* Support the safer recruitment and selection of new staff, both within the team and across Children's Social Care in order to ensure staffing levels are maintained.
* Keep up to date with the Council's organisational policies, government guidance, legislation, research and national trends in order to maintain the highest professional standards.
Requirements of this role:
* A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.
* Availability to work from the office 2-3x per week.
* Understanding of relevant legislation.
* Registered with SWE or eligible for registration
Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.