Assistant Team Manager – Children with Disabilities

Job Category: Social Care Qualified Job location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JG, United Kingdom Swindon Borough Council Hours per week: 37 Start date: Immediate start Salary: £35.30 per hour Job Purpose To deliver and improve services for Children, young people and their Families through the provision of high quality social work interventions, and effective partnership working with all those involved with the child. To lead and direct a team of professional social workers and other staff alternatively qualified together with support staff to provide services to children, young people and their families requiring support and/or intervention. Services to be delivered in accordance with legislation, Corporate and Directorate policies and allocated budgetary limits. To be a champion of Social Work values and delivering interventions that work to keep children safe and, where possible and achievable, within their own family or extended networks. To operationally manage and supervise the team to ensure high quality service to individuals, children, families and/or communities; focussed on good outcomes with timely interventions at the right level; within statutory guidelines and within given resource and budget availability. To model good management by taking professional responsibility for the provision of a high quality and responsive service. To assist the Team Manager in the determination of priorities, and support the Team Manager to endorse and promote our focus on quality assurance, value the importance of co‑production and seek out the voice of the child, young person and families in all aspects of service delivery. This will be done through effective management and supervision of social care staff to ensure those we work with are safeguarded and their welfare promoted. Key Accountabilities You will lead and manage a team of professional, skilled staff to provide a high quality, high performing outcomes driven service to ensure effective safeguarding practice is paramount and that children are supported to reach their full potential You will recruit, develop and motivate staff groups capable of fulfilling the changing demands of the service, through day to day support and providing high quality decision making with regards to children who are allocated to your staff group and within the service You will allocate resources and workload across your team to ensure effective delivery of services within allocated agreed budgetary limits. You will support the team managers in delivering the teams staffing budget and support the delivery of the team and service efficiency agenda and targets, as agreed by the Team Manager You will ensure that team members record all case work, undertake assessments, analysis, decisions, care planning and actions on the necessary ICs systems — signing off all decisions made and discussing any issues that require clarification or further scrutiny with relevant member of staff. You will ensure the team understands and adheres to the Quality Assurance Framework, including ensuring the regular case file audits are undertaken by yourself when required and that continuous improvement is evidence based and includes learning from national and regional practice You will ensure performance measures are adhered to and use this to drive a high performing team where statutory timescales are met You will ensure effective assessment; risk management and child protection and care planning protect the most vulnerable You are responsible for shaping and influencing the practice system to ensure confident analysis and decision-making is in place You will ensure supervision is frequent, reflective, challenging and explorative to enable informed decision making on cases that occur to safeguard children and vulnerable adults, and is based on the best evidence from research to inform complex judgments, promoting professional curiosity ad solution focused approaches to problem solving routinely within informal and formal supervision Develop effective and meaningful partnership working that is positive and constructive and respectful of differing roles and responsibilities and the value they can bring to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Support team members both internally and externally with partners as part of sharing information and developing safety and care plans Demonstrate effective use of power and authority by being confident in child care practice and family law and understand and ensure your staff also do what they need to do to ensure safeguard practice is in place for children and Young People Ensure your team members recognise and address behaviours or actions that are resistant to change in Families, prioritising and acting where immediate action is required and taking necessary proportionate action to safeguard children #J-18808-Ljbffr