Social Work Team Manager - Safeguarding

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join a well-established Children's service based in Northampton.

Team/Specialism: Safeguarding

Salary: £54,082.00 - £58,327.00 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

Benefits:

Highly competitive salaries

£2,200 Welcome bonus

Retention bonus

Social Work England registration costs

Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share

The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service

Monthly high quality supervision

Up to 27 day's annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)

Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year

Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme

Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%

Employee discount schemes

Up to £8,000 relocation allowance

Signs of Safety training

An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities

Heavily subsidised city centre parking

Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO

Duties:

Providing a quality, peripatetic service to the full spectrum of practice areas

Be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads, managing a talented team of Senior Social Workers, who will be working across multiple service areas and effectively ensuring that the care of the child remains paramount

Be responsible for recruiting and growing this Peripatetic Service, alongside your Management Team, ensuring their continuous development through quality supervision

Have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved

Requirements of the Team Manager:

* Be a qualified Social Worker, with current Social Work England registration, and ideally with a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification, or equivalent relevant experience

* Have experience and knowledge across a range of social work teams and services and demonstrably transferrable skills

* A strong, resilient, Social Work Team Manager with a breadth of experience, looking for a new, unique and exciting opportunity

* Be a highly competent and skilled people manager, incredibly organised and able to multi-task

* With strong emotional intelligence, patience and resilience, you will have the ability to manage a highly capable Senior Social Worker team and ensure development and performance issues are addressed though support and coaching

* Have had previous budgetary control experience, ICT skills and the ability to represent the service at a more senior level if required

Contact:

This Team Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients' requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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.