Team Manager | Family Safeguarding | Skelmersdale

Overview

As Team Manager you will lead a multi-disciplinary Family Safeguarding Team to improve outcomes for children and families. You will foster a strengths-based, relational approach and drive professional development, coaching, and performance. Your leadership will create a reflective, learning-focused culture and enable effective service delivery in partnership with stakeholders. This role combines people leadership with strategic oversight to sustain high-quality social work practice. You’ll contribute to a forward-thinking safeguarding service committed to positive change.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible and hybrid working
• equipment to work from home
• strong management support
• staff wellbeing focus
• induction programmes
• ongoing training and development

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing a high-performing Family Safeguarding Team
• Promoting high-quality, strengths-based social work practice
• Supporting practitioners to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and families
• Creating a positive, reflective, and learning-focused team culture
• Driving practice excellence through coaching, supervision, and professional development
• Working collaboratively with partners to safeguard children and support sustainable family change
• Ensuring effective performance management and service delivery

Key requirements

• Significant experience within children’s social care
• Strong leadership and management capability
• Ability to inspire, develop, and motivate teams
• Commitment to strengths-based and relationship-focused practice
• Capacity to drive high standards and continuous improvement

• leadership
• motivational
• collaborative
• relational social work
• practice development
• performance management

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