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...

Our client Bracknell Forest borough council is looking for an Assistant Team Manager to join their Children's services. Key objectives of the role: You will deputise when required for the Team Manager and work closely alongside them to deliver our vision and strategic values. You will have direct responsibility for social workers, including newly qualified social workers, students and support staff. You will support the Team Manager to drive performance, ensure the right plans are in place and needs lead services and intervention is provided for children and families. We will expect you to deputise for the Team Manager when required and support them across a range of areas, including recruitment and retention of staff and the chairing of meetings. You will be able to build effective relationships, demonstrate strong assessment and analytical skills have a well-developed understanding of assessment, planning and intervention and work effectively as part of a management...