Deputy Manager Social Care LBS-011

Job Description

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified
Location : Sumner House, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £23.87
Deputy Team Manager required work in the MASH Team at Southwark.

Responsibilities
Promote and govern excellent practice
1. Through leadership and management, promote and govern excellent practice to deliver high quality outcomes for children, young people and families in safeguarding and care/pathway planning, ensuring accountability for high professional standards which comply with procedures, agreed timescales and targets. Ensuring the safety of children and young people remains the highest priority.
2. Responsible for management of the team, overseeing workload and performance management.
Developing excellent practitioners
3. Provide high support and high challenge to motivate staff to carry out their roles to the best of their ability and to the standards required of them.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

4. Maintain own continuous professional development and that of the team through appropriate training, learning and research opportunities and in conjunction with the Service Manager.
5. Promote excellence in practice using research and practice evidence, tested to meet local need, setting an expectation that Southwark’s Practice Framework will be applied and developed by practitioners.
6. Support and assess Newly Qualified Social Workers through their Assessed & Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), others participating in work based routes into social work, and Social Workers preparing for the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS), taking the role of practice educator.
Shaping and influencing the practice system
7. Positively manage and contribute to service development within the team and across the service, by sharing practice knowledge and expertise, data and research findings, and by monitoring key performance areas for the team.
8. Build effective partnerships to deliver services flexibly across the organisation (as governed by service need) and within homes, schools or community settings where required.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:
1. Must hold a recognised social work qualification and a current registration with Social Work England
2. Knowledge of childcare legislation, statutory guidance and the London Protection Procedures
3. Knowledge and understanding of child development, parenting capacity, environmental factors and risk and protective factors
4. Knowledge and understanding of current issues in children’s social work practice, particularly in relation to child protection and planning of interventions
5. Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key children’s agencies
6. Knowledge of best practice for assessment and care planning, and some understanding of and commitment to the approaches within Southwark’s practice framework; systemic practices including Signs of Safety, restorative practices, and trauma/attachment-informed approaches including Secure Base
7. Experience of professional leadership, holding accountability for the practice and development of others, in order to drive service improvements and embed practice throughout the team

Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies

Ability to summarise, analyse and evaluate complex information in relation to social work assessment and practice
11. Understanding and commitment to the principles of openness, transparency and accountability and to the principles in Southwark’s practice framework (child/young person-centred, family minded, strengths-based, evidence informed, relationship based, outcome-focused, fair and reflective)
12. Understanding of the need to provide high quality emotionally intelligent supervision, guidance and support to staff, and the particular importance of clarity of social work task allocation, setting priorities and personal development