Social Worker - Team Manager - Assessment and Intervention

Location West Sussex
Salary £42.50 - £45.00 per hour
Discipline
Location: Crawley Library
Duty Weeks: currently one week in every four. Candidates are required to be onsite for duty weeks and any other meetings as required, this is usually one day a week. Meetings are being held face to face.
Pay rate - up to £47.50 depending on experience.
As Team Manager you will lead, motivate, nurture, and manage a team (social workers and unqualified staff) to deliver a children’s social care service on a day to day basis. You will be responsible for ensuring the service provided is effective and delivering the required outcomes, as well as ensuring cases are dealt with in a timely manner. You will ensure that children and young people are adequately protected in line with our policies, procedures and relevant legislation. What you’ll need to succeed: For this role you will be expected to demonstrate relevant theoretical Social Work concepts, practices and detailed organisational knowledge relating to the provision of a professional Social Work service. You will need to demonstrate confidence in managing and leading staff to achieve performance improvements and service developments. You will need to demonstrate an ability to influence and negotiate partner relationships at management leve