Job Description
3 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
• We are seeking three experienced Team Managers to join a Child Protection Team on a temporary basis.
• This role involves overseeing and supporting frontline social workers in delivering safe, high-quality services to children and families.
• You will provide leadership, supervision, and professional guidance while ensuring compliance with statutory responsibilities and performance standards.
Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):
• Provide operational leadership and case oversight for a busy Child Protection Team.
• Supervise and support social workers, ensuring high-quality practice and decision-making.
• Manage team performance, ensuring compliance with statutory duties, policies, and procedures.
• Oversee complex casework, including child protection, children in need, and care proceedings.
• Ensure that the voice of the child is central to all planning and interventions.
• Support staff through case discussions, reflective supervision, and coaching.
• Monitor and review workloads to ensure staff well-being and service efficiency.
• Liaise with partner agencies and internal departments to support multi-agency safeguarding work.
• Contribute to audits, inspections, and service development initiatives.
Skills/Experience:
• Significant experience in child protection and statutory children’s social care.
• Proven leadership or management experience within a social work setting.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation, policies, and best practice guidance.
• Strong supervisory, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Able to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure environment.
• Confident in managing complex cases, chairing meetings, and working collaboratively across agencies.
Additional Information:
• The closing date: 12/08/2025 @19:00.
• Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration.
Requirements
• Significant experience in child protection and statutory children’s social care. • Proven leadership or management experience within a social work setting. • Excellent knowledge of relevant legislation, policies, and best practice guidance. • Strong supervisory, communication, and decision-making skills. • Able to manage competing priorities in a high-pressure environment. • Confident in managing complex cases, chairing meetings, and working collaboratively across agencies.