Wandsworth Council - Assistant Team Manager - Children in Need

Posted 19 May 2020
Salary £36 - £38 per hour
LocationWandsworth
Job type Temporary
Discipline Social Care
ReferenceLORNA_1589897788
Contact NameLorna Burner

Job description

The core purpose of the role is to ensure that all children remain safe and have improved outcomes as a result of the provision of high quality social work.

The post holder will have a major contribution to make to the delivery of our vision and strategic priorities, by working with the Team Manager to manage the delivery and performance of high quality social work provision to children and their families across the Team. This will involve working with the Team Manager to performance manage staff within the team and use management information and audit findings to identify where team or individual performance is excellent and can be shared with other staff and where performance can be improved. The post holder will mentor and support social workers in dealing with the most complex cases and will develop effective practice through direct development of others and through driving practice improvement across the service. May also supervise social work students, newly qualified social workers as part of the ASYE, trainees and support staff.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.