Practice Manager-MASH

Location : County Hall North, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £36.04

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.
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 level.
You must have Team Manager experience for your CV to be reviewed by the MASH team and MASH experience.
DUTY WEEKS
The candidate would be expected to be onsite for duty weeks. Duty weeks are on a rota and currently are one and a half weeks in every three weeks ( one full week and then three days on a separate week).
LOCATION
County Hall North is in Horsham, a lovely town very close to the main shopping centre. It has some onsite parking, very close to the train station and a beautiful park. It also has a large open space with a canteen that serves light bites, teas and coffees.

Qualifications and experience:
A recognised Social Work qualification e.g. Degree in Social Work, Post Graduate Certificate in Social Work, DipSW, CQSW or equivalent as recognised by the relevant professional body.
A recognised post qualifying award in Social Work or demonstrable evidence of continuous professional development at a similar level.
Registration with the relevant professional registration body and maintaining registration with that body.
Demonstrable experience of delivering or co-ordinating a quality customer focused service to others.
Experience in dealing with significant issues, for example management of complex child protection matters, staff under performance, managing resources to address team performance priorities through allocation of limited resources.
Experience of managing/leading staff.
Expert relevant experience in specialist area, including sound relevant operational experience in social work, ideally working as a senior practitioner or small team leader/supervisor.
Experience of managing a small budget and/or contributing to financially related decisions on larger spends, how cost-effective decisions are made and operating within the financial constraints.
Experience of supporting initiatives in a political environment.
Demonstrable knowledge of how to improve practice and performance in a supportive, positive way
Valid, full driving licence.