Team Manager (Care Leavers) - £44ph

• Responsibility for planning and delivering services that improve outcomes for children and young people, as set out in the relevant legislation and associated guidance, ensuring that services are sensitive to the needs of children, young people and families, and of the highest professional standards.

• To ensure young people are appropriately consulted about services and that their views inform service delivery and development

• To chair meetings as required, encouraging young and adult care leavers to play an active part in pathway planning and promoting partnerships with other agencies.

• Work in partnership with internal /external agencies to ensure care leavers as vulnerable adults are appropriately safeguarded; to safeguard the children of care leavers who are parents who have child in need/child protection plans and ensure Personal Advisors are actively engaged in child protection oversight and management e.g. attending case conference and core group meetings.

• Accountable for effective case allocation, using supervision and analysis of management reports to ensure optimum case management and resolution, to monitor and evaluate outcomes of services against agreed standards, and reporting to Service Manager /Senior Management Team as appropriate

• Responsibility for implementation of policy and procedure, and effective decision-making within delegated authority level, ensuring staff adherence to all directorate policy, procedures and standards

• To demonstrate leadership and motivational skills, ensuring good communication and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and service user focus that delivers good outcomes for young people and adults.

• Responsible and accountable for the effective analysis and management of risk for all care leavers (and their children) held within their team, and ensuring compliance by team members with the requirements of relevant legislation, guidance and procedures

• Responsible and accountable for provision of safe and suitable pathway plans assuring quality of planning and review, working in partnership with young people and families, and partner agencies

• Responsible and accountable for effective team budget management, compliance with financial rules, identifying pressures and savings and bringing in a balanced budget

• Responsibility for professional and managerial staff supervision, in accordance with directorate supervision policy; for staff practice improvement and development, management of staff performance and ensuring under-performance is dealt with robustly

• To manage the overall workload within the team, ensuring an effective contribution to local and national performance indicators for children's services as well as the achievement of Service targets and standards, using information technology and management information as necessary. Conducting regular case audits.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with and quality of record keeping and report writing in the team, in accordance with requirements of the Care Experienced/Children's Services practice standards and policy and procedure

• Responsible for effective service delivery through an adequately resourced team, using recruitment, induction, training and workforce planning methods to support the team's development and performance

• To participate in one-to-one supervision with the Service Manager, undergoing annual appraisal and actively promoting own professional development.

• To ensure continuous improvement in services through enabling team members to access appropriate learning opportunities, promoting a learning culture within the team and ensuring appropriate responses to new Guidance and research.

• To deal with stage one complaints in accordance with directorate and Children Act criteria, and to work with staff and partners to resolve service problems and identify ways to improve services

• To manage the staff team and the associated financial and physical resources efficiently and effectively, ensuring a high standard of professional practice within the team and making positive use of the Service's information systems.

• To oversee all financial transactions to and from the Care Experienced service; work within the service and council financial polices/allocated budget, ensuring purchases made are cost effective and value for money

• To assess and make decisions in conjunction with the Service Manager, with regards to crisis support and hardship payments, financial support towards education, employment and training and any other financial decisions with regards to care leavers requesting support. Also with financial decisions linked to service delivery, team training or other areas deemed necessary for the Care Experienced service.

• To represent the Service at inter-agency meetings as appropriate.

• To contribute to service planning processes, identifying future objectives and service developments, developmental activity, undertake project work in a specific area, consistent with the post holder's skills and workload.

• Under the guidance of the Service Manager, to take appropriate action to manage the team's human resource processes such as recruitment, staff development, managing poor performance when appropriate, sickness absence, discipline, harassment and grievance, upholding the Council's equal opportunities policies and practices throughout.

• To provide cover for Team Manager colleague in their absence and assisting in resolving issues within and between teams as appropriate; deputise for the Service Manager when required.

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