Team Manager - Children in Care & Care Leavers Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Team Manager for its clients Children in Care & Care Leavers Team at Newcastle. This is an excellent opportunity to lead a dedicated team supporting children in care and young people transitioning into adulthood, ensuring positive outcomes and high-quality practice across the service. What will your responsibilities be? Managing and supporting a team of Social Workers and Personal Advisors Providing effective leadership, supervision, and performance management Overseeing assessments, care planning, and pathway planning Ensuring statutory responsibilities and timescales are met Supporting children in care and care leavers to achieve positive outcomes Driving high standards of safeguarding and practice quality Working closely with partner agencies and stakeholders Benefits: Competitive rate of £36.61 per hour Opportunity to lead a well-established service Supportive management structure Flexible working arrangements available Immediate interview availability Qualifications & Experience: To be successful in this role you must have, Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration Previous management or supervisory experience within Children's Services Strong knowledge of Children in Care and Care Leavers legislation and practice Experience managing performance and supporting practitioner development Ability to lead and motivate teams in a fast-paced environment Why Liquid Personnel? Free DBS and compliance service Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place* “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us • Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. • Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List. BH - 201299 GH - 35929