Our client in London Borough of Bexley is seeking an experienced Team Manager to join its Children's Social Care and Safeguarding service. You will provide leadership and management across MASH, Referral & Assessment, Child Protection and Family Support services, ensuring high-quality social work practice, effective safeguarding and positive outcomes for children and families.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of social work professionals.
• Oversee referrals, assessments and safeguarding interventions.
• Ensure effective management of child protection and family support cases.
• Provide supervision, guidance and professional development to staff.
• Monitor performance, casework quality and statutory compliance.
• Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners to safeguard children.
• Promote high standards of practice and timely decision-making.

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Recognised Social Work qualification.
• Current Social Work England registration.
• Significant experience within statutory Children's Services.
• Previous management or leadership experience within social care.
• Strong knowledge of safeguarding, MASH and child protection procedures.
• Experience supervising and supporting social work teams.
• Excellent leadership, communication and decision-making skills.
• Enhanced DBS clearance required.

Benefits

• Competitive rate of £44.77 per hour.
• Full-time, 37-hour working week.
• Opportunity to lead and influence safeguarding practice.
• Experience within a busy local authority setting.

About the client

Our client is committed to protecting vulnerable children, supporting families and improving outcomes across the borough. Its Children's Services teams work collaboratively with partner agencies to deliver effective safeguarding and high-quality support to local communities.

Interested? Apply today and take the next step in your social care management career!

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.

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