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JOB-20240819-db742659

Job Title: Shift Practice Manager (Children Social Worker) 
 Location: Kingston Upon Thames, UK 
 Salary: £45.20 per hour 
 Contract Type: Full-Time, Ongoing Locum

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Shift Practice Manager (Children Social Worker) in Kingston Upon Thames. This full-time locum position offers a competitive £45.20 per hour and the chance to make a tangible difference in the lives of children and families. If you are a proactive and experienced social work professional, ready to lead a dynamic team and manage high-risk cases, this role is for you.

<h3>Perks and Benefits</h3>

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Locum Job: Enjoy flexibility and autonomy in your schedule while gaining experience across diverse settings.
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Competitive Pay: Be generously rewarded for your expertise and commitment.
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Networking Opportunities: Collaborate with skilled professionals and expand your professional network.
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Diverse Experience: Work on varied cases and environments, enhancing your professional portfolio.
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<h3>What You Will Do</h3>

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Lead and manage service delivery for vulnerable children and young people, particularly within adolescent services.
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Supervise and support case workers, promoting professional development and team performance.
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Manage safeguarding and public protection risks, ensuring high standards of child protection.
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Facilitate multi-agency collaboration to provide comprehensive support to children and families.
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Ensure high-quality recording, monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance using Management Information Systems.
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Apply relevant legislation and policies to inform practice and uphold safeguarding responsibilities.
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Use data and evidence effectively to inform decision-making.
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Foster inclusive practice, addressing equality and diversity with colleagues and service users.
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<h3>About You</h3>

Qualifications:

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Degree-level education with a social work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
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Evidence of continuing professional development.
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Skills and Experience:

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Proven experience in social work practice and managing service delivery for adolescents.
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Sanctuary Personnel

Shift Practice Manager (Children Social Worker)

JOB-20241107-791d94d2

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Child Protection Advisors Service to work full time for Haringey.

The salary for this Service Manager job is up to £65,478 per annum. 
 
 Main duties:

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<li>Be accountable to ensuring the highest professional standards and professional conduct by fostering an environment that promotes rigour through self-reflection, debate and challenge.</li>

<li>Lead on holding an expectation that decisions are interrogated and underpinned by theory and best evidence that they contribute to the goals of the child and family.</li>

<li>Demonstrate optimistic behaviour and build positive relationships with children and families and other professionals. Lead by example, showing integrity, creativity, resilience and clarify of purpose.</li>

<li>Be visible and accessible to all staff, children and families. Promote a culture a culture where poor practice can be challenged stakeholders can feel safe to raise concerns including whistleblowing.</li>

<li>Prioritise budgets in order to meet demand and ensure quality of service provision. Confidently illustrate the relationship between efficiency, child outcome and financial flexibility so that services can respond to changing need and risk.</li>

<li>Secure excellent practice through an analytical understanding of different patterns of family functioning matched with service responses which are most likely to effect change for families.</li>

<li>Recognise the strengths and development needs of your staff, using practice observation, reflection and feedback mechanisms, including the views of children and families.</li>

<li>Invest available resources into staff and service development drawing on expertise of children and families.</li>

<li>Create an ethos within which staff are motivated and supported to be ambitious on behalf of children and families.</li>

<li>Use resources to the best effect and ensure mechanisms are in place to facilitate constant reflective thinking about the welfare of children and their families.</li>

<li>Build and develop influential and respectful partnerships between practitioners and partner agencies.</li>

<li>Lead in the application of an ethical approach to the exercise of authority, which develops and maintains relationships with families and professionals and ensure the protection of children.</li>

<li>Exercise statutory powers where social work assessment shows that families require help and support and children are at risk of significant harm, ensuring that actions are proportionate to risk.</li>

<li>Ensure the professional network identifies the logic by which children and families are functioning and use this as a basis for effective engagement. Take into account difference, the experience of discrimination and the impact of poverty.</li>

<li>Recognise the patterns of relationships between professionals, identifying where these are likely to compromise the welfare of families and the safety of children, taking immediate and corrective action.</li>

<li>Strike a balance between employing a managerial, task-centred approach and an enabling leadership style to achieve efficient day-to-day functioning.</li>
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Requirements of this Service Manager job:

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

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

<li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li>
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Contact: 
 This Service 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 adjus

Service Manager - Child Protection Advisors

JOB-20241107-791d94d2Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Leaving Care Team to work Full Time based in Haringey.The salary for this Service Manager job is up to £65,478 per annum. Main duties:<ul>
<li>To be responsible for effective Management of Team Managers and other practice staff as required to ensure across the Children’s Service the delivery of a seamless and holistic response to children and young people’s needs and to provide accountability for the delivery of services to children, young people and their families.</li><li>Ensure that there is effective management of childcare services, including judgement of risk to families and children, within the Service and across agencies. This may include managing staff in different locations, other disciplines and agencies as may be required as part of delivering multi-disciplinary services.</li><li>To manage, develop and continuously review services for the client group in partnership with others, in order to promote the provision of good quality, best value services for local residents.</li><li>To maintain a high quality of work standards uniformly across the service by ensuring that all staff and managers receive regular, high quality, challenging and reflective supervision, performance appraisal and standard setting. To lead, develop and manage team member’s expertise and special skills in accordance with departmental and Council policy and guidance.</li><li>To be responsible where appropriate for the recruitment, appointment and probationary assessment of new staff in compliance with Council Policy and procedures. To identify staff learning and development needs and ensure high standard of professional practice are achieved through systemic individual and team development programmes, to ensure that all staff are appropriately trained to the required standards of competence.</li><li>To participate in and to ensure regular audits of record keeping across the teams is consistently of a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks and embedded within practice and their teams.</li><li>To initiate, organise, attend and chair meetings as appropriate, including but not limited to single and inter-agency meetings and core work groups for particular children, monitor performance of agreed tasks for all participants.</li><li>To ensure that the views of our service users continuously contribute to improvements to the service.</li><li>Coordinates and directs staff in decision making process to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families within a single and multi-agency care planning framework.</li><li>To be accountable for the most effective use of allocated budgets, adhere to Best Value principles, control cost and enhance.</li><li>To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.</li></ul>
Requirements of this Service Manager job:<ul>
<li>A social Work Qualification or equivalent.</li><li>Understanding of relevant legislation.</li><li>Registered or eligible for registration.</li></ul>
Contact: This Service 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.

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