About the role
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Team Manager for its client's Children in Need Team at Torbay Council.
The Team Manager will provide strong professional leadership, management oversight, and support to a team of social workers working with children and families who require statutory Children in Need (CIN) support.
The successful candidate will ensure that children remain at the centre of all decision-making and that CIN plans are purposeful, outcome-focused, and regularly reviewed. The postholder will provide effective oversight of risk, safeguarding, case progression, and interventions, ensuring that children receive the right support at the right time.
Accommodation Allowance: £150 per week.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Lead and manage a team of social workers responsible for Children in Need cases.
- Provide effective professional leadership, direction and management oversight.
- Allocate and monitor CIN caseloads appropriately.
- Ensure practitioners receive regular, reflective and purposeful supervision.
- Monitor workload, performance, case progression and compliance with statutory timescales.
- Support staff to maintain high professional standards.
- Promote a positive culture of accountability, professional curiosity and continuous improvement.
- Identify and address performance, workload and practice concerns promptly.
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 experience in a Team Manager role
- Degree level or equivalent in Social Work
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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