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JOB-20240819-db742659Children’s Practice Manager - Specialism in Assessment and Support - Greenwich, UK - £To be confirmed hourly - Ongoing contract.Join us in an exciting opportunity to lead and inspire as a Children’s Practice Manager. Based in the vibrant area of Greenwich, you will steer our Assessment and Support Teams, ensuring they continue to provide exceptional care. With the flexibility of an ongoing locum contract, this role is perfect for those who thrive on variety and challenge.Perks and benefits: As a locum, you will enjoy the flexibility to explore diverse work environments and schedule adaptability to suit your lifestyle. Benefit from our professional development opportunities and access to high-quality training sessions to advance your career. You'll also have a chance to expand your professional network while working alongside experts in the field. Enjoy competitive hourly rates and the possibility to improve your work-life balance through flexible scheduling.What you will do: - Provide day-to-day direction and coordination for staff within the Assessment and Support Teams. - Ensure the delivery of timely and proportionate allocations, and statutory assessments based on identified risks. - Assist in the operational management of the team, implementing new initiatives in collaboration with the Team Leader. - Support the Team Leader in ensuring the team’s core functions uphold the highest quality standards in safeguarding and child welfare promotion. - Allocate work, set targets, and oversee training programs, fostering staff development and motivation. - Establish standards and priorities for the team, advocating quality management and adherence to policies. - Supervise and manage up to two qualified social workers.Requirements: The ideal candidate will be registered with Social Work England and possess the capability to exceed the expected standards for an experienced social worker. You should have experience in an urban, culturally diverse environment and evidence of continuous professional development. The candidate should also have experience supervising children's social care staff and utilising quality assurance systems.Greenwich is not just a fantastic place to work but also a wonderful place to live. It boasts beautiful parks, a vibrant community, and rich history, ensuring plenty to explore and enjoy in your downtime. With excellent transport links, you'll find yourself easily connected to the heart of London and beyond. Embark on a new adventure, making a tangible difference in children's lives while enjoying all that this iconic area has to offer!Working with Sanctuary Personnel: Sanctuary Personnel is a trusted and award-winning agency for roles. With an ‘Excellent’ rating on Trustpilot from over 1,000 reviews and many prestigious industry awards, we are dedicated to finding you the best possible rates in roles that match your skills and experience.

Sanctuary Personnel

Children's Practice Manager

JOB-20240819-db742659Social Worker – Court Progression Manager (Children’s Services), Lambeth, UK Specialism: Children’s Social Worker – Court Progression Salary: To Be Confirmed (Hourly) Type: Locum, Full-Time, OngoingEmbark on an exciting opportunity as a Court Progression Manager within Lambeth’s Directorate of Quality Assurance, Children’s Social Care Division. This pivotal role focuses on safeguarding vulnerable children through strong legal processes, effective care planning, and service improvement. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, legal teams, and local authorities, influencing practice across the entire service. Make a meaningful impact while thriving in the vibrant, diverse borough of Lambeth.<h3>Perks and Benefits</h3>
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Locum Flexibility: Shape your schedule while gaining varied experience across different settings.</li><li>
Competitive Pay: Receive fair, regularly reviewed rates that reflect your contribution.</li><li>
Professional Development: Access continuous training and development to enhance your career.</li><li>
Networking Opportunities: Build strong professional connections across social care and legal services.</li><li>
Work in a Thriving Borough: Enjoy Lambeth’s dynamic culture, excellent amenities, and lively social scene.</li></ul>
<h3>What You Will Do</h3>
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Collaborate with legal teams and family justice partners to progress care proceedings efficiently.</li><li>
Clarify roles, responsibilities, and expectations across all stages of the legal process.</li><li>
Champion children’s rights, ensuring their voices shape decisions and proceedings.</li><li>
Drive strategic improvements by introducing innovative practices and enhanced workflows.</li><li>
Support staff development through mentoring, guidance, and sharing best practice.</li><li>
Provide expert advice on complex legal matters within Children’s Social Care.</li><li>
Attend planning, legal gateway, and operational meetings to ensure smooth case progression.</li><li>
Monitor case timelines, identify delays, and implement effective solutions to maintain momentum.</li></ul>
Lambeth is a lively and culturally rich borough, offering both professional reward and an exciting lifestyle. With excellent transport links, diverse communities, and countless cultural attractions, it's an ideal place to develop your career and enjoy life beyond work. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to securing brighter futures for children.<h3>Working with Sanctuary Personnel</h3>
Sanctuary Personnel is a trusted, award-winning agency with an ‘Excellent’ Trustpilot rating from over 1,000 reviews. We are committed to securing the best rates and roles tailored to your skills and experience.

Social Worker Children - Court Progression Manager

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for an Assistant Team Manager within the Children with Disabilities Team to work full time based in Slough.The salary for this permanent Assistant Team Manager job is up to £53,587 per annum.Main duties:<ul>
<li>Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.</li><li>Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.</li><li>Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.</li><li>Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used in response to the presenting needs.</li><li>Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.</li><li>Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations including positive risk taking situations.</li><li>Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.</li><li>Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.</li><li>Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.</li><li>Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.</li><li>Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individuals development and ensure that individuals contributions are maximised.</li><li>Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.</li><li>Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.</li><li>Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.</li><li>Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.</li><li>When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Assistant Team Manager job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact: This Assistant Team Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.

Assistant Team Manager - Children with Disabilities

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children in Care Team to work full time based in Haringey. The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,084 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.</li><li>Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.</li><li>Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence informed practice.</li><li>Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.</li><li>Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.</li><li>Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.</li><li>Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.</li><li>Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.</li><li>Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.</li><li>Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.</li><li>Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.</li><li>Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.</li><li>Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Team Manager job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Continual professional development.</li><li>Social Work England registered.</li></ul>
Contact:This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.

Team Manager - Children in Care

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children in Care Team to work full time based in Haringey. 
 
 The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £57,102 per annum. 
 
 Main duties:

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<li>To be responsible for the management of the team and ensure that the service provided is of the highest professional standard and is responsive to legislative requirements as well as corporate and national priorities.</li>

<li>To be responsible for all the work held within the team and to ensure that it is prioritised and allocated promptly within the available resources.</li>

<li>To ensure the team's record keeping is maintained to a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks.</li>

<li>To chair a range of practice meetings, including strategy meeting, core group meetings, monitoring the performance of agreed tasks for all participants.</li>

<li>To provide regular, high quality, challenging and reflective supervision of staff within agreed timescales and according to the departmental policy.</li>

<li>To be responsible for evaluating staff performance, including conducting probationary assessments, performance appraisals, sickness absence procedures and any other relevant procedures.</li>

<li>To facilitate and direct as necessary partnership with parents, carers, other professionals and partner agencies to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.</li>

<li>To develop a service consistent with models of partnership working with other agencies, children and their families and to enable children to stay safely at home wherever possible.</li>

<li>To authorise, monitor and review financial commitments ensuring they meet children's needs, are within costs limits, adhere to Best Value principles and to contribute to the identification if any resource shortages and efficiencies.</li>

<li>To implement the service business plan, ensuring that team members are clear about their individual and collective contribution towards achieving the objectives, targets, targets and standards contained within it and to manage performance against these.</li>

<li>To undertake all work activities ensuring that the Council's policies (including Equalities) are adhered to and that the organisational values are upheld.</li>

<li>To take the lead role for defined areas of service, to deputise for their line manager, to ensure that all decision are taken at an appropriate level and senior managers informed of identified risk, as and when necessary.</li>

<li>To undertake any other duties that may be reasonably required and assigned by the service.</li>
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Requirements of this role:

<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li>

<li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li>

<li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li>

<li>A recognised management qualification or evidence of participation on an organisational leadership or management development programme.</li>

<li>Past experience in a management position with past experience in managing a team.</li>

<li>Understanding, knowledge and ability to follow guidelines to ensure compliance with Health &amp; Safety at Work, Data Protection and other statutory requirements.</li>

<li>This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).</li>
</ul>

Contact: 
 This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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 re

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