Team Manager – Childrens Services (Pre-Birth Team)
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20 hours ago
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Job Summary
Our client is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Team Manager to lead their wellestablished PreBirth Team within Childrens Services based in Durham.
Following a service redesign that began in 2022 Durhams PreBirth Team works intensively with atrisk families to support children to remain safely within their birth families wherever possible. The service works closely with care leavers young parents and parents with experience of care proceedings with a clear focus on breaking cycles of repeated social work involvement.
The team has recently redesigned its assessment pathways to deliver bespoke prebirth assessments prior to a childs birth with these pathways now being launched countywide. Caseloads are capped to enable meaningful relationshipbased work with families.
About the Role
As Team Manager you will be responsible for the daytoday leadership and management of a team of passionate and nurturing PreBirth Social Workers. You will work closely with a Social Work Consultant to ensure highquality practice effective interventions and strong outcomes for children and families.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a professional who is passionate about early intervention leadership and making a lasting impact on childrens lives.
You will be supported by:
- A strong network of Team Managers across East Durham
- Social Work Consultants
- An engaged and supportive senior management team
- A comprehensive inhouse leadership and development programme
What will your responsibilities be
In this role you will:
- Provide operational leadership and oversight of the PreBirth Teams work
- Support social workers to deliver highquality assessments and interventions that promote sustainable change
- Ensure practice is safe childfocused and meets statutory and quality standards
- Embed and champion the Signs of Safety model of practice across the team
- Monitor performance quality and outcomes ensuring work is completed to a high standard
- Provide reflective supervision and professional support to social workers
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with families partner agencies and other professionals
- Be visible accessible and engaged as a manager to staff and families
- Contribute as a key member of the wider Childrens Services management team
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have:
- Degree level qualification in Social Work (or equivalent).
- Registered withSocial Work England.
- Significant post-qualified experience within Childrens Services.
- Proven experience managing or supervising social workers.
- Strong understanding of pre-birth work safeguarding and early intervention.
- Experience embeddingSigns of Safetyin practice.
- Excellent leadership decision-making and relationship-building skills.
- Desirable:Parent Assessment qualification.
- Eligible to work in the UK.
Benefits:
- Competitive agency rate of37.66 per hour.
- Capped caseloads allowing quality relationship-based practice.
- Strong senior leadership support.
- Comprehensive training and leadership development offer.
- Opportunity to influence practice and outcomes at a service level.
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 arent available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquids 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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