Job Description

Role: Assistant Team Manager - Assessment Team

Contract: Temp

Grade: M3

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Assistant Team Manager on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their Children and Learning department.

About the Role

To work closely with the Team Manager in managing and directing a social care, intensive support and stronger families' teams, resources, and budgets to assess the needs and provide services to support children, young people, families and carers where a child is vulnerable, in need, disabled, at risk of harm or becoming looked after, in accordance with the statutory powers and duties of the Local Authority.

Enable children and young people to remain safely within their home and/or community environment, including appropriate provisions identified by the LA, and ensure they achieve good outcomes through effective social work intervention.

Ensure the team provides effective services, employing best professional practice and standards, which have measurable benefit for service users.

As an Assistant Team Manager, you will be responsible to:

• Work closely with the Team manager in managing in the day-to-day operations of the team, including deputising in their absence, providing a social work service of assessment, care planning, child protection and key working within the scope of the Children Act 1989 and related legislation.
• Hold a social work complex caseload as directed by the Team
• Manager, if appropriate to the needs of the team. To take responsibility for their own development and that of the team in keeping up to date with new and relevant legislation, research and guidance, peer, and user feedback.
• Recruit, motivate, train, and develop staff within Council procedures.
• Undertake development activities required for own development and experience e.g., court work, child protection, adoption and fostering, with the aim of increasing their professional knowledge and experience. And keep up to date with legislation, government initiatives, social work theory and best practice to ensure an effective workforce that can meet service objectives and Every Child Matters Agenda.
• Ensure the provision of an effective service to local people by
• maintaining high standards of professional practice and adopting a positive approach to the full involvement of service users and carers in assessment and care planning processes, always encouraging.

Skills and Experience

• Able to assist in managing, motivating and developing a social services team, effectively achieving high levels of performance from staff and representing the service and department at a variety of internal/external meetings.
• Demonstrable communication skills, including:
• Able to develop and maintain effective administrative and organisational procedures.
• Able to lead and chair multi- disciplinary meetings.
• Able to negotiate and influence service users, staff at all levels, elected members and other professional both internal and external.
• Commitment to the achievement of the highest possible standards of professional practice by all team members, through co-working, coaching/mentoring and the provision of advice, guidance and assistance.

About Us

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for several years.

We are an equal opportunities employment agency and business that positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Connect2Luton is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Luton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.