Are you an experienced leader passionate about making a difference in the lives of children, young people, and families?
Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can lead, inspire, and innovate?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Team Manager within Placement Services in beautiful Moray.
Benefits of our brilliant rewards package include:
... - Flexible Hours: Control your work hours and choose assignments that fit your lifestyle.
- Competitive Pay Rates: We offer highly competitive remuneration for each placement.
- Professional Development: Opportunities to work across various departments, enhancing your skills and broadening your expertise.
- Free training: Keep up to date with your Continuous Professional Development.
- Pension Scheme: Contributory pension.
- Referral Bonus: Receive £300 in vouchers (subject to Ts and Cs).
- Weekly payroll: Randstad runs a twice weekly payroll, enabling you to control your finances by receiving weekly pay.
- Dedicated Support: Our team is here to assist you at every step, from onboarding through the entirety of your placement. We can even help with sourcing accommodation and travel, if required.
Responsibilities:
- To be responsible for the management and delivery of Placement Services: placement services comprise Through-care & Aftercare, Fostering, Adoption, Kinship Care, Supported Lodgings and Continuing Care.
- To supervise, evaluate and be responsible for the quality and effectiveness of services provided through Placement Services working to national or agreed service standards.
- Provide line management supervision to the senior social workers.
- To manage the continuous improvement of services provided by Placement Services.
- To assess practice, personal development and personnel needs for staff working within Placement Services and be responsible for realising agreed staff development priorities.
- To ensure the provision of day to day advice, guidance and assistance to colleagues.
- To assist in the operational and strategic development of child care and Placement
Services, managerial and professional practice as a member of the first-line
management team.
- To undertake additional countywide/national child care Placement Services tasks and developmental projects.
Qualifications and registrations:
- Qualified Social Worker
- SSSC registered in the Social Work part of the register
Experience required:
- Considerable post qualifying experience in placement services, childcare area team / equivalent setting.
- Previous supervisory/ management responsibilities.
- Experience of multiagency working.
- Experience of Inspections.
- Experience of monitoring and evaluating services.
- Experience of budget management.
- Project and/ or service development.
- Provision of staff training and development.
This could be the perfect position in which to realise your career goals.
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Why let this opportunity slip through your fingers?
Do you have some more questions regarding this or any other role?
If you are interested in discussing the position further, please contact Leah Rowley on 0131 240 0887 or email for a confidential discussion. If you are happy to move forward with the process and are successful to be put forward for this role, a conversation can also be arranged with the Manager to discuss the details about the position further. This gives you the opportunity to ask more questions and to assess if this is the right role for you.
Being a preferred supplier to numerous local authorities and NHS trusts, we can give you access to a wide range of vacancies.
Are you thinking about a change in your career? Whether you are an existing locum or you are new to the locum market and are exploring your options, we have opportunities that are exciting, well paid and flexible.
I have over 20 years experience recruiting within the healthcare market. If this particular role does not sound quite right for you, we have a wide selection of roles across the country that may not be advertised. We are also able to source a particular role to suit your requirements, so whether you work with children or adults in any particular speciality, please get in touch to see how we can support you!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
