Opus people solutions on behalf of Cambridge County Council have an exciting opportunity for a Team Manager to join their Assessment team

Job Title: Team Manager - Children's Assessment Team
Length of assignment: 3 Months
Hours per week: 37
Hourly rate: £44
Location: Huntingdon
Remote/Office based: Hybird

Our Assessment Teams are lively and fast-paced. We're a team who have a passion for ensuring that children, young people and families in our community receive a positive and timely service. The work is rich, varied and allows for a high level of multi-agency working, often to tight timelines. The nature of our work means that you see positive outcomes quickly.

Our team is supported by Children's Information and Advice Officers (CIAOs) which makes administrative tasks much more manageable.

Day-to-day responsibilities of a Team Manager in Assessment include:

• Supervision and development of practitioners, identifying areas of strengths and areas to improve and implement appropriate plans to achieve this.
• Manage the delivery of the team to ensure it is a high quality and effective service that responds to the needs of children, young people and their families or carers in a timely manner within statutory guidelines or service specifications.
• Manage the planning, allocation and review of cases and ensure priorities are managed.
• Lead on customer service and stage 1 complaints.
• Manage the recruitment and staffing of the team.
• Provide expert knowledge of safeguarding processes, policy and case law.
• Lead on initiating, developing and sustaining internal and external working relationships with other professionals and partner agencies.

If you thrive to make a difference and have 3 years experience and this is the role for you, then we would love to hear from you