Child Protection and Care Manager
2 weeks ago
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.
- 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.
£50,000 - £63,042.
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