Children's Team Manager - Safeguarding team

Our client Barnsley Council is looking for a Children's Team Manager to join their Safeguarding team.

Responsibilities

• Have lead professional and operational responsibility for a team of staff, including recruitment, motivation, training, welfare, performance management and personal development.
• Develop and implement policies/procedures for the team/area and contribute to the development of strategy/services/policies for a specialised field, setting the direction for the service within strategic parameters.
• Undertake performance management, quality assurance and ensure value for money in services delivered by the team; act on inadequate performance as appropriate and make recommendations to improve future quality standards.
• Oversee and undertake clear and detailed client assessments, screening for risk and urgency, ensuring that referrals are allocated in accordance with agreed protocols, priorities and work-load management systems and resultant case files are monitored.
• Ensure equality of opportunity is afforded to all persons both internal and external to the council, actively seeking to eliminate any direct or indirect discriminatory practices/behaviour.
• Provide professional advice, guidance and information to a range of internal and external stakeholders as required (including social work students at Levels 1 and 2 and students from other professional disciplines), giving evidence in court, dealing with complex cases and emergency situations, ensuring that information is available at all times including outside normal office hours.
• Manage and develop appropriate transitions arrangements and chair multi-disciplinary meetings as appropriate to specialised field /local structures.
• Ensure that 'Making Safeguarding Personal' is undertaken , in accordance with policies and procedures, ensuring that case records and information systems are kept up to date and maintained to the required standards.
• Proactively liaise, negotiate, influence and collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, developing effective relationships, resolving conflicts, promoting the service.
• Investigate and seek to resolve formal and informal complaints in a timely fashion and to the satisfaction of the complaint in line with BMBC policies and procedures.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practice, policy and procedure in relation to vulnerable people as well as keeping abreast of wider service developments to enhance the service accordingly to satisfy internal and external demands.
• Authorise and manage expenditure within prescribed budgets, contributing to resource planning for specialised field, monitoring and evaluating contracts supporting packages of care as well as some responsibility for team facilities and other physical resources.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.