Team Manager - Children’s Services
Liquid PersonnelBarnsley, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom · Posted 11 months agoDescription
Job Title: Team Manager - Children’s Services
Location: Barnsley - Hybrid (minimum onsite presence required - 3 days)
Pay Rate: £40 per hour
Job Description:
Liquid Personnel is recruiting a skilled and experienced Team Manager to lead a dynamic children’s social work team within its client’s Children’s Services department in Barnsley. This is a fantastic opportunity for a confident leader with a strong safeguarding background and a passion for driving quality and performance.
What will your responsibilities be?
You’ll be responsible for managing a team of 7 social workers, including 1 Advanced Practitioner, within a fast-paced and supportive environment. Your leadership will be key in navigating complex safeguarding cases, ensuring high-quality assessments and interventions, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a children’s social work team
- Oversee complex safeguarding cases and risk management
- Support staff in delivering high-quality assessments and interventions
- Drive performance and meet service targets
- Promote a child-centred, strengths-based approach
- Collaborate with multi-agency partners
- Provide reflective supervision and professional development
Benefits:
- Hybrid working supported
- Onsite parking available
- Supportive leadership team and professional development opportunities
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Proven experience in children’s social care management
- Strong understanding of safeguarding legislation and best practice
- Ability to lead, motivate, and develop staff
- Excellent communication and decision-making skills
- Commitment to improving outcomes for children and families
- Comfortable working in a hybrid model (minimum onsite presence required)
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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