Team Manager
Qualified Social Worker
Child Protection
Location:
West Yorkshire
Pay rate: £40 per hour
We're seeking experienced
Children's Social Work Team Manager
to lead busy Child Protection teams. Applicants must have a strong background in team management and be confident overseeing the full journey from referral through to permanence for a local authority in the
West Yorkshire
you will be leading a busy and supportive team who assess and work with children and families and intervene where children need support to provide more children with help at an earlier stage.
Working in accordance with social care legislation and local government requirements, informed by the values and principles of social care; you will be supporting in the delivery of person centred, safe and effective social care services. Using your professional knowledge and experience you'll make assessments and decisions about the most appropriate interventions. Applying your significant
Social Work
experience and excellent communication skills you'll establish and maintain relationships with service users and other agencies to ensure services meet identified needs.
You'll be committed to ensure positive and sustainable results of your interventions. Using best practice, you'll strive to provide the best outcomes for children. Most importantly however, you'll have a passion for supporting children and their families to ensure that they thrive and flourish. Our priority is to protect the most vulnerable and to be as efficient as possible.
Perfect candidate will have:
Proven experience managing:
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Referrals, Assessments, and Child in Need cases
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Strategy discussions, S47 enquiries, and Child Protection processes
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Pre-proceedings, court work, and transitions into permanence/adoption
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Ability to practice in line with the council's restorative and family-led approach
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Skilled in influencing team culture and supporting performance
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Confident in case decision-making and outcome-focused supervision
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Capable of managing staff welfare, performance, and HR matters
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Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
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Experienced in working with children and families including those from vulnerable groups.
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Creative, flexible and forward thinking in approach.
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Knowledgeable of Child Protection legislation and understanding of child protection issues.
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Constantly striving for continuous improvement to provide the best outcomes for children.
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Able to use excellent mediation and negotiation skills on behalf of service users.
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Highly skilled at building meaningful relationships with children and families to engage them in assessments and plans
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Committed to providing our service users with a high-quality service
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Experienced in working in a multi-disciplinary, interagency basis
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4 Years plus Qualified
In this role you will:
- Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
- Manage an agreed case load.
- Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
- Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
- Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
This role is ideally located
for those travelling from Oldham, Trafford, Ashton under Lyne, Macclesfield, Bury, Altrincham, Bolton, Preston, Blackpool, Lancaster, Middleton, Urmston, Huddersfield, Irlam, Stretford, Eccles, Salford, Rochdale, Stockport, Harpurhey, Longsight, Chester, Warrington, Runcorn, Bradford, Wirral, Liverpool, Leeds, York, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Manchester, Normanton, Pontefract, Keighley, Shipley, Batley, Bingley, Otley, Halifax, Burnley, Sheffield, Oldham, Preston, Halifax, Rotherham and Doncaster
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor),
Child & Family,
Families First, MASH, Children Looked After, Localities, Children in Need. Child Protection, Court, Children's Social Work, Adult Social Work, Child Protection, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.
Not looking right now? We also offer generous referral bonuses so please pass on to a colleague or friend who may be!