Team Manager - Family Intervention Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Family Intervention Team to work full time based in Jersey.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £79,599 per annum.

Main duties:

• At first line manager, strategically and operationally lead the initial assessment and high risk decision making about referrals of children requiring a range of social work interventions including those in need of immediate care and protection. Ensuring effective information gathering by the team to enable professional decision making within set timescales.
• Lead on the communication and coordination of a multi-agency response to high profile or high risk and complex situations involving children, young people and families. Involving, advising and assisting senior stakeholders within CYPES, Government Ministers and the communications team as required to provide accurate and timely information in the event of media interest.
• Appraise and monitor the performance of the team, which includes senior practitioners, social workers, family support workers and administrative personnel in order to achieve optimum outcomes for children, young people and their families within defined and agreed budgets. Provide guidance, coaching and mentoring necessary for each team member to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, adherence to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and to ensure that the criteria for continuing professional registration are fulfilled.
• Develop strategies and staff guidance to ensure standards of practice and care are delivered. Identify individual staff training and development needs as well as developing an annual team business and training plan in line with CYPES and strategic plans.
• Advise the senior leadership team in relation to all relevant issues affecting the delivery of social work services to vulnerable individuals, their families and carers, and to keep abreast of national developments in there area of expertise.
• Develop strategies and guidance and provide specialist expertise and oversight to all staff, colleagues and stakeholders to ensure the robust assessment, care planning and review of children, young people and families needs on a day-to-day basis and high standards of practice and care for vulnerable individuals, their families and carers.
• Directly supervise senior practitioner staff and provide general professional supervision and support to the wider with particular regard to professional practice and standards across all aspects of the service, in order to ensure the highest standards of care for service users and their families/carers.
• Develop and maintain an effective communication network, liaising with the people who use our services, their carers, appropriate professionals and professional groupings, to ensure that they are all ware of the relevant referral procedures and the range of services and resources available, and to develop and manage effective joint working protocols across agency and professional boundaries.

Requirements of this Team Manager job:

• A social Work Degree or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.
• Minimum of 1 year experience working with children in care
• Good written and Verbal communication skills
• Good timekeeping skills.
• Experience of completing life story work

Contact:
This Team Manager 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.