Team Manager, Children With Disabilities, South YorkshirePertemps are recruiting for an experienced Team Manager to join the newly created Short Breaks team in Barnsley’s Children’s Services. This post sits within the Children with Disabilities Service. The post holder will oversee the short break offer and lead the delivery and review of tailored and targeted short break packages/services to families and children through a team of short break family support workers.Responsibilities:

• Lead the short break team and advise on the development, coordination, implementation, evaluation and quality assurance of related projects, training, programs and systems.
• To provide professional supervision, coaching and mentoring to internal practitioners through a variety of mechanisms to effectively address any quality or safeguarding concerns.
• To report any safeguarding incident or concerns immediately in line with Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board and Council policies and procedures.
• To develop and implement whole system change in partnership through agreed programs in order to support service design.
• To take an active role in statutory inspection events in associated functions and services, supporting developments in response to changes to inspection frameworks and associated guidance
• Ensure that services are cost effective, and budgets are accounted for. This will include provision of monthly budget analysis reports outlining spend, variances and projected out turns.
• Build internal capacity to deliver appropriate and evidence-based practice, providing support in interpretation of relevant statutory frameworks and guidance.
• Demonstrating impact and outcomes in relation to children and families you will use this alongside your specialist theoretical knowledge to ensure packages continue to reflect children and family’s needs and legislative requirements

Requirements:

• Relevant management experience in a similar statutory social work team
• Substantial relevant post qualifying experience of working with children and families and multi-agency partners to deliver services
• Knowledge of all relevant legislative and statutory requirements including SEND Agenda and Short Break Legislation
• Social Work England registered

If this sounds like the role for you, please contact Aishah Hassan on for more informationThis is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager