Team Manager - Children & Family Social Care

Triumph Consultants Ltd

Barnsley

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Title: Interim Team Manager - Children & Family Social Care Job Ref: Barnsley 0009 3CF2 / 1 Pay Rate: £25.13 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months City: BARNSLEY Enhanced DBS required Hybrid working - be able to work from the office 3 days a week Provide leadership, management and direction to a range of staff; ensuring that allocation, assessment, care and support planning, delivery and review of services are provided by the most effective, economic and efficient means within clear standards and legislative requirements. Act as a safeguarding manager. Be responsible for team budgetary oversight, and service quality and performance. Key responsibilities:

Have lead professional and operational responsibility for a team of staff, including recruitment, motivation, training, welfare, performance management and personal development.
Develop and implement policies/procedures for the team/area and contribute to the development of strategy/services/policies for a specialised field, setting the direction for the service within strategic parameters.
Undertake performance management, quality assurance and ensure value for money in services delivered by the team; act on inadequate performance as appropriate and make recommendations to improve future quality standards.
Oversee and undertake clear and detailed client assessments, screening for risk and urgency, ensuring that referrals are allocated in accordance with agreed protocols, priorities and work-load management systems and resultant case files are monitored.
Ensure equality of opportunity is afforded to all persons both internal and external to the council, actively seeking to eliminate any direct or indirect discriminatory practices/behaviour.
Provide professional advice, guidance and information to a range of internal and external stakeholders as required (including social work students at Levels 1 and 2 and students from other professional disciplines), giving evidence in court, dealing with complex cases and emergency situations, ensuring that information is available at all times including outside normal office hours.
Manage and develop appropriate transitions arrangements and chair multi-disciplinary meetings as appropriate to specialised field /local structures.
Ensure that ‘Making Safeguarding Personal’ is undertaken , in accordance with policies and procedures, ensuring that case records and information systems are kept up to date and maintained to the required standards.
Proactively liaise, negotiate, influence and collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, developing effective relationships, resolving conflicts, promoting the service.
Investigate and seek to resolve formal and informal complaints in a timely fashion and to the satisfaction of the complaint in line with BMBC policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

Recognised Social Work qualification or equivalent (Including Nursing, OT and Physiotherapy)
Registration with the appropriate professional body.
Level 5 Management Qualification or willingness to work towards.

Knowledge:

Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of personalisation, care planning, problem solving and analysis.
In depth knowledge of the CPD framework and the Practice Educator Framework
Demonstrate working knowledge of the Social Work Professional Capabilities Framework and the nine interrelated domains.
Knowledge and understanding of operational service and staff management responsibilities including personal development performance management and recruitment and retention and effective complaint resolution.
Advanced understanding of legislation, policies and procedures relevant to working with adults and children, including an advanced understanding of local and national safeguarding procedures and practice

Experience:

At least 5 years' post qualification experience within relevant policies, the statutory framework and legislation including safeguarding.
Experience of working in a health and social work team / care setting e.g. elderly, learning disabilities, mental health and vulnerable people, including multi-agency settings.
Managerial experience e.g. managing budgets, performance management, staff supervision and performance reviews.
Experience of managing highly complex work situations.
Extensive experience of working in statutory children’s social work, of driving plans for our most vulnerable children and of working in partnership with families and agencies to achieve positive change

Skills & Abilities:

Effective leadership and management skills including effective change management skills and conflict resolution
Excellent oral and written communication skills including listening, complex report writing, presenting evidence and chairing multi-disciplinary meetings, including chairing Safeguarding and Best Interest meetings
Demonstrate and model advanced skills in work prioritisation, time management and working to deadlines, organising own workload and responding to unexpected problems.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective working relationships and constructively challenge.
Ability to analyse and interpret complex information and undertake problem-solving to develop solutions.
Ability to model and work in an anti-oppressive manner .
Ability to provide effective reflective supervision to individuals and teams, to include those that carry a complex caseload, undertake investigations and provide clear and detailed assessments and outcomes.