Children & Families Practice Manager - South Locality Team

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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, you will manage a team of practitioner who are the lead professionals to vulnerable children and their families who have been assessed as required targeted early help services.

* You will manage and ensure the delivery of a range of interventions to support children, young people families in need at risk to live safely within their family and communities wherever possible.

* Ensure care plans for children and their families are robust and SMART. You will ensure that cases are progressing to aim 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 are able to provide the highest quality targeted support to families to prevent needs from escalating and cases from stepping up to statutory services.

* As a Targeted Early Help Manager, you will 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.

* To ensure that assessments, planning and review are conducted in line with MKC policy and against agreed standard and performance target.

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.

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.