Main characteristics
- Location
- Manchester
- Company
- We Do Social Work
- Salary
- £40/hour
- Employment type
- Contract
- Category
- Social Care / Nursing
Job summary
Job title:Team Manager Fostering Support Service
Based in Wigan Life Centre (South), £40 per hour, Hybrid.
Your Job:
You will lead the development and delivery of effective social work practice in childrens social care within the Recruited Fostering Team. You will be responsible for ensuring that social work practice is safe, child focused and underpinned by the Deal principals. You will ensure that Signs of Safety is embedded as our practice model through effective leadership and management. You will work alongside other managers to ensure that the service is highly effective, meets statutory requirements and supports all aspects of practice through highly effective performance management oversight.
You will operate in an environment of transformational change and innovation, be able to manage change in a time of financial constraints whilst providing clear and effective leadership to social work teams. Through the implementation of the deal principles you will demonstrate and encourage others to be creative, innovative and improve service delivery, demonstrating improved outcomes and value for money.
You will be central in developing the whole work force, fostering a culture of continued learning, adoption of best practice, developing aspirational future leaders within the organisation.
You will have operational accountability for a team of social workers and your role is pivotal to develop, promote and govern excellent practice and develop excellent practitioners.
You will ensure the team understands and adheres to the quality assurance framework, including case audits and that continues improvement is evidence based and includes learning from SCRs and research that informs practice and decision making.
Shape and influence the practice system demonstrating confident analysis and decisions making. You will ensure that supervision is reflective, challenging and explorative to enable informed decision making on cases that occurs to safeguard children.
You will champion the Deal for Foster Carers and be integral to the Local Authority achieving its placement sufficiency targets.
The Council is committed to complying with the European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and meeting the requirements of the Information Commissioners office (regulating data protection compliance in the UK). It is your responsibility to ensure that the work you undertake is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulations.
You will need:
You must be able to demonstrate the following essential requirements:-
Be fully qualified, have accredited social work professional status (CQSW, DipSW, CSS, PQCCA), current registration with Social Work England
Evidence of significant post qualifying experience within a relevant professional field
Some management experience of statutory specialist services Significant knowledge and fundamental understanding of current research, innovation and good practice standards in relation to children & families, Cared for children, care leavers and residential care provision at a local and national level
In depth knowledge of statutory and legislative frameworks which underpin effective care planning
Leadership skills and the ability to promote and gain commitment to the organisations policy and objectives Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, with internal and external stakeholders
The ability to successfully plan for and effectively contribute to OFSTED inspection processes
The ability to manage a heavy workload under pressure and meet competing deadlines
A good decision maker who can make critical decisions using your own initiative
Experience of working with key stakeholders to ensure collaboration and partnerships
The ability to work as part of a team and as an individual, with an innovative approach to recognising problems and providing solutions
For more information please get in contact:-
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