Child Protection and Care Manager

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Sanctuary Personnel Ltd Full time
Senior Social Work Role

Sanctuary Personnel is seeking an accomplished Senior Social Work professional to lead their Fostering Team as a Social Work Team Manager on a permanent full-time basis in the Bexley area.

About the Opportunity
  • Stay informed about local and national child protection contexts, research, and statutory procedures, applying them within the team.
  • Contribute to developing and implementing local policies and service improvement strategies, supporting their implementation within the team and service.
  • Offer specialist social work and child protection expertise to the team, service, and other multi-agency professionals, fostering a deeper understanding of children's experiences.
  • Liaise with multi-agency partners to deliver high-level support to children and families.
  • Represent the local authority professionally, especially in court, with families, or with other agencies.
  • Maintain adherence to Council policies, procedures, values, and code of conduct at all times, ensuring team members are aware of and follow these expectations.
  • Prioritize timely responses and actions to contacts, referrals, allocations, complaints, information requests, child protection enquiries, court directives, and plans for children.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant laws, statutory guidance, and local procedures governing children's safeguarding, adult safeguarding, the social work profession, health and safety, employment law, human rights, and data protection.
  • Regularly supervise and appraise worker performance, including case management oversight, timely decision-making, effective plan implementation, reflective space, respectful challenge, and supports ongoing learning and development.
  • Audit and review case work and records regularly to ensure contemporaneous and detailed case notes, up-to-date summaries and chronologies, good-quality assessments and reports, and holistic plans.
Key Requirements
  • CQSW, DipSW, BA Social Work, or equivalent professional qualification.
  • Knowledge of relevant childcare legislation.
  • Ability to travel independently to required areas by job responsibilities.
  • Previous management or supervisory experience working with children and families.
Estimated Annual Salary:

£50,000 - £63,042.



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