Job Description
5-6 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
• An exciting interim opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled and experienced Team Manager to lead a dedicated Adolescent Safeguarding team.
• This role involves overseeing complex safeguarding work for vulnerable adolescents at risk of exploitation, serious youth violence, and contextual harm.
• You will provide effective leadership, supervision, and quality assurance across the team to ensure children and families receive high-quality support and intervention.
• The successful candidate will have a strong background in safeguarding adolescents, managing multi-disciplinary teams, and delivering improved outcomes for children through strength-based and trauma-informed practice.
Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):
• Lead and manage a team of social workers and practitioners working with adolescents at risk of harm, including exploitation and serious youth violence.
• Oversee assessments, care planning and interventions to ensure they are timely, proportionate, and outcome-focused.
• Provide reflective supervision, case direction, and support to practitioners to ensure safe and effective decision-making.
• Ensure work complies with legislative frameworks, statutory guidance, and local procedures relating to child protection and safeguarding.
• Chair strategy meetings, multi-agency risk panels and contribute to high-risk decision making alongside partner agencies.
• Promote strength-based, restorative, and trauma-informed approaches to safeguarding practice.
• Lead audits, quality assurance activity and performance monitoring within the team.
• Contribute to service development and continuous improvement within adolescent safeguarding services.
• Maintain effective working relationships with external partners including police, education, health, and voluntary sector agencies.
Skills/Experience:
• Substantial post-qualifying experience in children's social care, specifically safeguarding adolescents.
• Proven leadership and management experience within statutory children's services.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant legislation including the Children Act 1989/2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and contextual safeguarding frameworks.
• Experience of managing complex risk, including child criminal and sexual exploitation, missing children, and gang-related harm.
• Skilled in multi-agency working and chairing complex safeguarding meetings.
• Confident in using performance data and quality assurance tools to improve practice.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.
Additional Information:
• The closing date: 13/10/2025.
• Qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.
• Enhanced DBS and references required prior to start.
• Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week).
Requirements
• Substantial post-qualifying experience in children's social care, specifically safeguarding adolescents. • Proven leadership and management experience within statutory children's services. • In-depth knowledge of relevant legislation including the Children Act 1989/2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and contextual safeguarding frameworks. • Experience of managing complex risk, including child criminal and sexual exploitation, missing children, and gang-related harm. • Skilled in multi-agency working and chairing complex safeguarding meetings. • Confident in using performance data and quality assurance tools to improve practice. • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.