Team Manager Adoption Support
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £26,206.50 i £27,247.50 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £26206.50 - £27247.50 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 22 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Trowbridge, BA14 8JN |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | F0041-05571 |
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Specific duties and responsibilities include: Responsible for the quality assurance of the work of the team which includes regular file audits, signing off assessment reports, court reports and managing complaints. Lead responsibility to ensure that all Adoption Standards are met. Act as the main contact person for the adoption team in relation to complex adoption matters. Using expert knowledge and experience to provide information, guidance and be the final decision maker ensuring the best and most appropriate outcome for service users. Manage the overall work of the Adoption Support teams, allocating cases and delegating agreed case responsibility and staff supervision to the Deputy Team Managers as appropriate. Ensure formal supervision, consultation and annual appraisal are conducted for all reporting staff. Responsible for identifying and prioritising their training needs. Management responsibility of all case work and other activities carried out by the staff in the team, e.g. assessments, ASF applications and therapy reviews, support groups, safeguarding referrals. Take strategic and operational lead in developing the adoption support service and to support the service director in the production of the adoption service plan. Keep up to date with national initiatives, legislative changes, practice developments and best practice in the adoption field and identify their implications and, working with all staff across services, implement the key changes that arise from these. Contribute to design and delivery of training to adopters and professionals. Ensure the effective management of the letterbox service providing indirect contact between adoptive parents, adoptive children and birth families. Develop and promote direct contact arrangements across the region. Identify gaps in adoption support services and proactively lead on service developments. Lead and manage the implementation of new services and initiatives to continuously improve adoption support services ensuring best value for money. Maintain up to date data on adoption support services and to provide regular management information reports to the Service Director to assist in Adoption Wests reporting responsibilities to the Adoption Leadership Board. Secure the effective involvement of parents/carers, children and young people in the development and evaluation of adoption services. Responsible for the budget management of and accountable for the adoption support teams staffing and operational budgets, including responsibility for managing within budget and exercising effective financial management, to include reduction in external spending. Robust management of resources by ensuring quality and value for money in service delivery. Ensure that relevant management information is provided concerning the activity of the adoption support team as required. This includes performance indicators and targets required for local and national reports. Advise and provide consultancy to childcare teams and professionals on adoption support issues. Write reports for various stakeholders to keep them abreast of adoption support matters and to present those reports in person. As part of an Adoption Leadership team to contribute to the management and review of any services commissioned by the organisation. Ensure that complaints and allegations in adoptive placements are dealt with under Child Protection Procedures and to liaise directly with LADOs. Lead and advise on matters of policy and ensure adoption policies and procedures are updated regularly to comply with regulations and cascaded to staff. Possible deputising for other team managers or the service manager in times of absence, i.e., leave, sick leave and training. Interpret national adoption regulations, policies and legislation and translate these into appropriate practice, policy and procedures. Responsible for ensuring the highest standards and quality in all services provided for looked after adopted children in order to effectively improve their life chances and outcomes.