Team Manager - Young people Disability Team

Our client Reading Borough Council is looking for a Team Manager to join their Children and Young people Disability Team.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure effective delivery of a service in a specialised field in accordance with legislative requirements, all relevant policies and procedures and agreed performance targets.
• To advise your line manager of any significant incident, event or identified trend, in order to ensure effective and timely management and resolution.
• Provide advice and support in relation to complex cases; respond to complaints from service users/relatives/carers.
• Allocate and supervise workload to agreed service priorities; monitor case files, computerised records; deal with workload management issues as they arise.
• Lead a team of staff, including recruitment, induction, training and personal development, absence management, retention, grievance/discipline/capability, succession planning, work force planning.
• Undertake professional supervision of staff, including appraisals and staff development activities.
• Undertake performance management, quality assurance and ensure value for money in services delivered by the team; act on inadequate performance as appropriate.
• Authorise and manage expenditures within prescribed delegated budget; contribute to resource planning for specialised field; monitor and evaluate contracts supporting packages of care; may carry responsibility for team facilities/physical resources.
• Develop and implement policies/procedures for team/area. Contribute to development of strategy/services/policies for specialised field, ensuring service delivery is within relevant legislation and regulation.
• Develop and maintain internal and external working relationships with partner organisations, external agencies.
• Offer direct support to staff at a level commensurate with their level of experience - chair reviews/planning meetings/case conferences/strategy meetings as appropriate and ensure those chaired by other staff within your service are effective.
• To model leadership competencies and behaviours that continuously develops staff and services.
• To take personal responsibility for identifying and meeting your own development and training needs.
• To undertake delegated duties on behalf of Service Managers, as required.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to -250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.