Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based in Leicester.

Team/Specialism: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) Team

Pay Rate: £40 per hour (assignment rate)

Contract: Locum, 3-Months

Hours: Full-time

Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
• Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
• Access to our online career’s hub

Main Duties:

• Carrying out independent age assessments of child’s social and cultural needs
• Arranging medical and psychological assessments and observations
• Ensuring child protection procedures are being adhered to
• Advocating on behalf of the service user
• Assessing young people if they appear in need of care services under section 47 of the care act
• Arranging safe, age appropriate accommodation
• Offering support for refugee families including focus on child welfare
• Addressing child poverty when families are living in poor quality housing and have insufficient means of support
• Carrying out assessments and arranging access to appropriate services for children and young people who have been trafficked
• Organising access to age appropriate training, education and leisure services
• Transitioning young people from Children’s to Adults Services

Requirements of the Team Manager:

• Degree or equivalent in social work
• Current Social Work England registration
• Recent managerial experience, working as a TM, DTM or ATM etc.
• Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services

Contact: This Team Manager job is advertised by George Day; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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.