Liquid Personnel is currently seeking an experienced and dedicated Assistant Team Manager to join Durham’s Children in care Team.
Benefits:
1. Hybrid working options available
2. Supportive management
As Team Manager you will:
3. You will build effective relationships with children, young people, and families and ensure that children and young people lead their care planning. You will advocate and appreciate individual need to achieve outcomes based on evidence-based assessments.
4. You will spend quality time with children in our care, understanding their views, their life events and supporting them to understand and recover from what has happened.
5. Working with the child you will complete and update assessments and review the care plan.
6. You will assess and manage risk with the support of your team manager.
7. You will be part of a strong multi-agency team including education, health and our own therapeutic service Full Circle.
8. You will be part of a Service that is constantly seeking to improve outcomes for children in our care and be part of developing this service further. Your ideas and aspirations will be very important to us.
What we are looking for in a Team Manager:
9. Hold a fully accredited DipSW/Social Work degree (equivalent to Level 6 NQF), are registered with Social Work England, and have a management qualification or equivalent experience.
10. Have a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience in Children’s Social Care
11. Experience of working with all service user groups and with service users from the minority ethnic groups
12. Experience of interpreting and applying the law relating to children and / or to adult services
13. Experience of child protection and childcare work and issues arising
Why Liquid Personnel?
14. ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly
15. Twice weekly payroll and an internal ‘hours’ team
16. Free DBS and compliance service
17. Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
18. Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
19. Your own personal consultant with extensive social work knowledge. Your consultant’s service will be personally tailored to you as an individual
20. Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
21. “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
22. “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *