Team Manager - Children with Disabilities - Croydon Council Salary: Grade 16 (£57,201 - £59,328) Permanent - 36 hours per week Welcome Payment - £10,000 Retention Payment - £5,000 Hybrid working We are seeking a qualified and experienced Team Manager to join us and support our extremely talented team of Social Workers to driving the service forward. You will lead and manage performance of a team and foster a culture of continuous learning and reflection of practice that inspires staff to give their best in their roles. To lead and manage performance of a team of social workers and foster a culture of continuous learning and reflection of practice that inspires staff to give of their best in their roles. Introduce, embed and continually improve at team level, the quality of social work consistent with established models of good practice. To provide professional advice to staff, colleagues and partners for the area of responsibility. Ensure that assessments and plans for children are robust, evidence-based, progressed in a timely way, are effective in keeping children safe and are outcome focussed. Allocate cases effectively in terms of matching the risk / complexity of cases with the skills, experience and professional development needs of social workers. Prioritise the deployment of staff resources and ensure practice is operating in accordance with the thresholds of Croydon''s early help and staged intervention model. Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and ..... full job details .....