About the role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting Team Manager for its client's Adults First Response Team at Merton.
This is a key leadership role managing a frontline Adult Social Care team responsible for assessments, safeguarding, care management, and support planning. You will lead a multidisciplinary workforce, ensure statutory duties are met, and drive high-quality, person-centred practice across the service
What will your responsibilities be?
- Lead, supervise, and develop a team of Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, and Care Managers.
- Oversee assessments, support planning, safeguarding enquiries, and care management activity.
- Ensure compliance with the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, DoLS, and Adult Safeguarding procedures.
- Manage team performance, quality assurance, workload allocation, and service delivery.
- Chair complex case conferences, safeguarding meetings, and multi-agency discussions.
- Support staff with complex cases, court work, and safeguarding investigations.
- Monitor budgets, authorise care packages, and promote effective resource management.
- Work closely with health, housing, and voluntary sector partners to deliver integrated services.
- Drive service improvement, workforce development, and best practice across the team.
Qualifications & Experience
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Social Work England registration
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Hold a full UK driving licence
- Post-qualified Social Work experience
- Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, CSS, or an equivalent recognised Social Work qualification.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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