Pay rate – £41.42 per hour Contract – Temporary Stoke on Trent City Council are recruiting an experienced children’s Practice Manager for their Integrated Front Door team. Expected to manage 3 consultant social workers who each process 10-15 contacts per day of children and families requiring support, safeguarding and or protection. Manage and develop the delivery of Children and Family Services to a defined area of service by organising, leading, motivating, and ensuring the supervision of the teams. Whilst providing outstanding Leadership and Management across Children and Families Services To ensure the delivery and operation of a range of high-quality, cost-effective services to meet the individual needs of Children, Young People, and their Families and Carers. To develop performance management systems within the team and ensure the achievement of performance targets and quality assurance to support continuous improvement. To achieve the best possible positive outcomes for children and young people across the service. Contribute to the management, delivery, and operation of a range of measurably high-quality, cost-effective services to meet individual needs. Manage the team’s caseload including complex cases. Focusing on the development of quality in practice, setting standards and the conditions required for successful social work by motivating and nurturing staff, taking responsibility and be accountable for the practice of social workers, and managing the duty function Children’s Social Workers will need at least 3 years’ permanent experience with an English local authority and to be registered with Social Work England, as per DfE rules. This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you: - A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to An easy registration process (all done online) Referral schemes and incentives Ongoing compliance managed for you. Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more. Please contact Emma Brennan on 07384 834872 or email emma.brennan@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information. We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.