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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Practice Manager within the Fostering Team to work full time based in Jersey.

The salary for this permanent Practice Manager job is up to £72,874 per annum.

Main duties:

• Plan and organise case co-ordination for a team of social work staff, and oversee the implementation of care and protection to ensure prompt identification and follow up of cases takes place where social work intervention is required.
• Under the guidance of the team manager, the practice manager will be responsible for the day-to-day direction of social work staff, providing supervision, guidance, coaching and mentoring necessary for each team member to maintain the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, adherence to relevant codes of conduct, policies, procedures and legislation and to ensure that the criteria for continuing professional registration are fulfilled.
• Support staff to holistically assess individual needs and develop and design care and intervention plans that treat each person as a unique individual, in order to protect, promote and monitor he safety and welfare of children, young people, families and carers. Wherever possible, promote children, young people, families and carers individual views and wishes in order to support the voice of the child, upholding and promoting their rights under the united nations convention of the rights of the child.
• Deliver appropriate, open, accurate and straight forward communication to children, young people, families and carers, clearly explaining service policies and the professional role and responsibilities of the social work teams including any statutory intervention which may prove necessary.
• Implement risk assessment policies and procedures, ensuring that they are followed by social work staff and carers at all times. Lead on accessing specialist professional advice and guidance in all complex cases, so that potential and actual risk is identified and managed, particularly in relation to those who are assessed as being the most vulnerable to risk of harm by self or others.
• Implement and monitor data protection and confidentiality policies to ensure that all information about children, young people, families and carers is always treated by social work staff in the strictest confidence in line with data protection, relevant disclosure and consent policies, and information sharing protocols and procedures.
• Take a lead role un multi-agency decision making to ensure that children, young people and families receive a service commensurate with risk and need. Take the lead in chairing complex meetings which includes, but is not restricted to, strategy meetings, fostering and adoption panels and core planning meetings and reviews.
• Share and present professional knowledge and expertise to colleagues within the team and with other partners.

Requirements of this Practice Manager job:

• A social Work Degree or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Social Work England registered.
• Minimum of 1 year experience working with children in care
• Good written and Verbal communication skills
• Good timekeeping skills.
• Experience of completing life story work

Contact:
This Practice Manager job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.