Children & Families Practice Manager - South Locality Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Children & Families Practice Manager within the South Locality Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes.

The salary for this permanent Children & Families Practice Manager job is up to £53,465 per annum.

Main duties:

• To lead and manage a team of professionals from a range of disciplines, ensuring that casework is allocated and monitored across the team’s area of responsibility.
• With the assistance of a Senior Practitioner, manage a team of practitioners who are the lead professionals to vulnerable children and their families requiring targeted early help services.
• Manage and ensure the delivery of a range of interventions to support children, young people, and families in need at risk to live safely within their families and communities wherever possible.
• Ensure care plans for children and their families are robust and SMART, aiming for cases to progress towards closure or step down to other services by the 20^th week.
• Be responsible, alongside the Senior Practitioner, for providing supervision and support to ensure practitioners can provide the highest quality targeted support to families to prevent needs from escalating.
• As a Targeted Early Help Manager, work closely with the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and other managers to be part of a rota system to ensure children who come to the attention of the MASH for early help assistance are signposted and supported with the assistance of an Early Help Advisor.
• Ensure that assessments, planning, and review are conducted in line with MKC policy and against agreed standards and performance targets.

Requirements of this Children & Families Practice Manager job:

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Children & Families Practice Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.