Assistant Team Manager – Standard (Childrens)

Job Category: Social Care & Health Qualified
Location: Bracknell Forest Council, Bracknell Forest Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £27.18

1. To assist the Team Manager with reflective supervision of Social Workers, Family Workers (in line with the supervision policy) and other staff as required, including providing feedback and analysis of performance.
2. To lead on strategy discussions working together with partner agencies to conclude with safe and proportionate threshold decisions.
3. To challenge and support social workers to strive towards improved performance where possible and if necessary, support them through an improvement programme.
4. To contribute, with management support, to the equitable provision of service in terms of allocation, assessment, care planning and interventions, through supervision and through the organisation of work requested.
5. To assist in the development of the service by flexible and imaginative practice and supervision when considering how to meet assessed needs.
6. To maintain an efficient and cost-effective provision of service in accordance with Departmental guidelines, legislation and budgetary considerations.
7. To work in a way that encourages and develops inter-agency co-operation.
8. To promote listening to children and young people at every opportunity, ensuring their views are heard, recorded and acted upon in an appropriate and timely manner.
9. To ensure that the required timescales for assessment and review are met without delay.
10. To actively engage with parents and carers so that their views contribute to service improvement.
11. To undertake regular reviews of, and track, performance data alongside the Team Manager.
12. To undertake any other tasks that are commensurate with the scope of the role
    that may be required from time to time.