Assistant Team Manager

Job Qualification Form

The Basics

Company

Bromley

Contact name, title & number

Lewis Teasdale – SEND Service Manager

Amanda Quincy – Deputy service manager 

Vacancy job title

Senior Case Officer/ Assistant Team Manager (annual reviews)

Salary / rates / benefits

£400pd + Bromley Matrix costs + VAT

Initial 3 months through Matrix, but the roles are ongoing

Location - Is remote working an option??

Happy for remote working.

Would love someone that can offer 1 day, but its not super important.

Mentioned that if remote, they do like people that can collect IT equipment and that meet the team.

Reason for hiring

Hannah Glennon leaving – not wanting a like for like 

Direct Line Manager– Name and job title

Amanda Quincy – Service Manager

Lewis Teasdale – AD

Company

 Sold in: Michelle Ellis – could be interested.

Need

Essential / Desirable Skills and Experience (any flexibility?)

Essentials:

• SEND background, someone that HAS been a Senior Officer or Team Lead (or above looking for a step down).
• Experience within Annual Reviews, new assessments etc – all age range
• Someone that has been in LAs for a long time, lots of changes going on and lots of people leaving.
• Like someone to be starting Mid October realistically – little handover with Hannah when she leaves on the 31^st Oct.

Desirables:

• EOTAS experience is a huge desirable but not essential

3 Most Important Things (skills / attributes/ qualifications you can’t compromise on)

• Mentioned above in the essentials

How long have you been looking? (What is the impact of not hiring? why do you believe you’ve been unsuccessful so far? what skills were missing from previous applicants? Do you have any internal options?)

• Brand new role.
• Interviews next week – cant give dates as just come back from leave and diary is manic

Candidate Background (Previous job titles/ sector experience/ Qualifications)

Out and out Senior Officer or above

Reviews, new assessments, backlog, PFA, Early years – someone that is happy to work within all aspects of SEND, not wanting someone that “only works on PfA for example”

DNA 5

Budget (enough for duration of contract)

Yes - Approved – happy to deal directly with us and then put the orders through Matrix after, typically this is what they do.

Full qualification/understanding of the Role (inc. why, start date, MIT’s, requested exclusivity etc.)

Yes – other agencies may find out about this, but its not public knowledge for now

Interview slots (booked in verbally over the phone and confirmed in ROE)

Couldn’t tell me this due just coming back from holiday. When sending CVs, find out days / times they can and cant interview

Follow up call scheduled (with DL/mobile & virtual meeting proposed)

Usually she will come back the same day with feedback on CVs

ROE email returned (confirmed by client with SDS/IR35 status)

Matrix

Company Information

Team split/size/culture

6 people in the team, will only be directly managing the team when the team manager is away

Projects (relevant current and future they may need to have involvement with)