Assistant Team Manager

Location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, SN1 2JG

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Duration: 3+ Months

Working Hours: Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 17:00, 37 Hours per week

Pay Rate: £ 30.49 per hour

Job Ref: OR10479

Responsibilities

The role involves delivering and improving services for children, young people, and their families through high-quality social work interventions. This includes leading a team of professional social workers and support staff to provide necessary services within legislative, corporate, and budgetary guidelines. Key responsibilities include:

Leading and managing a team to ensure effective safeguarding and support for children to reach their full potential.

Recruiting, developing, and motivating staff to meet the changing demands of the service.

Allocating resources and workloads to ensure service delivery within budgetary limits.

Ensuring team members record all case work and undertake assessments, analysis, and care planning on necessary systems.

Adhering to the Quality Assurance Framework and conducting regular case file audits.

Ensuring performance measures are met to drive a high-performing team.

Managing risk and child protection through effective assessment and care planning.

Providing frequent, reflective, and challenging supervision to enable informed decision-making.

Developing effective partnership working to safeguard children ...