Assistant Team Manager – Children with Disabilities - £40 ph
* Location: Swindon
* Pay Rate: £40 per hour (Ltd/Umbrella)
* Contract: Locum
* Start Date: ASAP
About the Role
Swindon is seeking a confident and experienced Assistant Team Manager (ATM) to join our Children with Disabilities (CWD) team. This is a pivotal leadership role, supporting frontline staff in delivering high-quality social work to children and young people with disabilities and complex needs.
You will manage a reduced but more complex caseload, provide reflective supervision, and take a proactive role in performance management and service development. This is an excellent opportunity for a practitioner ready to step into leadership while maintaining direct involvement in complex casework.
Key Responsibilities
* Independently manage a complex and multi-faceted caseload, while maintaining a reduced workload appropriate to leadership duties.
* Use the Family Safeguarding model, applying strengths-based and collaborative approaches to working with children and families.
* Undertake in-depth assessments focused on risk, harm, parenting capacity, and ability to change.
* Recognise and respond to all forms of abuse, exploitation (including online), and neglect, ensuring children's safety and wellbeing.
* Provide reflective supervision, mentoring, and performance oversight to social workers and students.
* Lead on safeguarding practice within the team, chair multi-agency meetings, and ensure statutory responsibilities are met.
Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:
* Your own dedicated specialist consultant
* Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organizations throughout the UK
* Prompt and reliable payroll
* Free DBS and compliance service
* £500 referral fee
For more information, please contact Dylan at Tripod Partners on 07919 026892 or send your CV to dylan.nel@tripodpartners.co.uk
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