Kinship Team Manager - £42 per hour

Requirements:

• Social Work Qualification
• Social Work England Registration
• Management/Supervisory experience within Social Work teams
• Fostering, SGO and/or Kinship experience and knowledge

NonStop's client, a Local Authority in South East London, is looking for Team Manager who can quality assure and monitor the viability assessments, private fostering assessments, special guardian assessments and connected persons assessments undertaken.

The role includes:

* Contribute to developing and be responsible for delivering effective new Kinship service

* Support development of a new Kinship Team

* Manage 6 Children Social Workers and 2 Social Work Assistants

* Be accountable for the performance of the quality and effectiveness of the team's performance as measured by national and local performance indicators.

* Meet improvement targets set through the timely effective implementation of improvement actions.

* Develop policies and procedures and allocate the work development and improvement strategies within the service.

It is a really exciting time to join this authority in South East London as they implement the 1st National Kinship Strategy and the Government Children's social care: stable homes, built on love.

For further information on the role, please send your CV in a Microsoft Word format to Jessel on or give me a ring on Ext 7153.