Do you have the ability and experience to lead a team of caseworkers who make effective decisions about someone’s suitability to work with vulnerable groups?
Can you set and monitor performance expectations for your staff to manage delivery and provide support to team members to ensure team and individual caseloads are effectively prioritised and progressed?
The Disclosure and Barring Service is now hiring for a DMU Team Manager
Grade: SEO
Location: Darlington/Liverpool
Salary: £38,700 - £43,300
Reports to: Grade 7
Line Management: Yes
Security Clearance level required: BPSS
About the Department:
DBS operates in the complex world of safeguarding, protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
We provide a service that enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make better informed, safer recruitment and other decisions.
Job Purpose:
The role of Team Manager is at the heart of the Barring & Safeguarding Directorate. It involves managing a casework decision making team or an operational support team to produce timely and accurate safeguarding decisions on referrals coming into the DBS. Through effective caseload and quality management, you will lead the team to ensure that cases within your team’s responsibility are progressed i...