Team Manager

Overview

In this Team Manager role in Maidstone, you lead a social work team within children’s services to deliver high-quality safeguarding for children, young people and families. You will supervise and quality assure practice, chair key professional meetings, and drive a positive performance culture with multi-agency partners. Your extensive child protection knowledge will shape decisions and permanency planning. This is a mission-driven, customer-facing leadership position within the council’s safeguarding agenda.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 Social Workers and 1 Social Work Assistant with support from Business Support
• Provide high-quality supervision and management oversight for cases
• Quality assure the team’s work and maintain positive team morale
• Chair strategy discussions, permanency planning meetings, and other professional meetings
• Lead, manage and motivate the team to embed a positive performance culture
• Contribute to safeguarding decisions for children in need and under protection
• Collaborate with multi-agency partners to achieve service goals

Key requirements

• Qualified Social Worker with registration in Social Work England
• Enhanced DBS clearance
• Full UK Driving Licence (driving requirement acknowledged)
• Experience supervising social work staff
• Extensive knowledge of child protection and legal processes (Public Law Outline and pre-proceedings)
• Ability to provide supervision and management oversight of cases
• Ability to meet English/Welsh language requirements for the role

• leadership and people management
• effective supervision and mentorship
• strong communication and liaison skills
• child protection knowledge
• Public Law Outline (PLO) and pre-proceedings
• strategy discussions and permanency planning

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