Team Manager


Details:
  • Salary: £50,942 - 55,125 - Annum
  • Job Type: Permanent
  • Job Status: Part-Time
  • Salary Per: Annum
  • Location: South East
  • Date: 3 weeks ago
Description:

Manage and develop a geographically based social work assessment team that conducts assessments in accordance with statutory guidelines, policy and standards and Surrey's thresholds of need.

* Develop strengths based motivational practice that aims to keep as many children in need/in need of protection as possible safely within their family.

* Work collaboratively with partners to deliver effective and safe assessment services which are on time and within budget to ensure that children and young people's needs are being met and vulnerable children and young people are protected from harm.

* Manage operational effectiveness of the team to deliver services on time and within budget, allocating and prioritising workloads and taking responsibility for ensuring all cases are safely managed. In exceptional circumstances manage a case directly to ensure safe resolution.

* Ensure that social work case records, assessments, plans and documentation for all children and young people for whom the team is responsible are effectively maintained in line with practice standards and organisational policy and procedure. Foster good relationships with legal services and local family courts to manage efficient and effective Legal Planning Meeting, Public Law Outline and court proceedings where attempts to support children to remain within their families have not been successful.

* Promote purposeful social work practice, following the service's parenting/group work programmes, and undertake regular clinical and case work supervision that is reflective and outlines clearly the next steps to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. Manage effective communication of practice, service and organisational issues within the team and work collaboratively across other social work teams, services and with partners to provide highlevel integrated support to children and families.

* Ensure the team understands and adheres to the Quality Assurance Framework, and manage the effective use of performance processes and systems to promote effective service delivery and drive improvement. Ascertain the views, feelings and wishes of children, young people and their parents /carers and use to appropriately inform their care plans and development and performance of services

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