Team Manager - Children in Care

Birmingham Children's is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Team Manager to join their Children In Care Team.

Location
:
One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham

Payrate
: £38.00 Per hour (Umbrella)

• Lead and manage the team:
  Provide effective leadership, management and professional oversight to a team of social workers, ensuring high-quality services and positive outcomes for children in care.
• Safeguard children and promote welfare:
  Ensure children in care are protected from harm, their needs are met, and their safety, stability and long-term wellbeing remain central to all decisions.
• Oversee care planning:
  Ensure robust care plans, placement plans and permanence plans are developed, regularly reviewed and progressed in line with statutory requirements and each child's individual needs.
• Provide supervision and support:
  Deliver regular reflective supervision, case consultations and performance reviews, supporting staff to develop their practice and manage complex cases effectively.
• Monitor performance and quality:
  Ensure statutory visits, reviews, assessments and case records are completed to a high standard and within required timescales.
• Promote permanence and stability:
  Drive timely permanence planning, including reunification, kinship care, long-term fostering, adoption and other appropriate arrangements, ensuring delays are minimised.
• Work collaboratively with partners:
  Build effective working relationships with Independent Reviewing Officers, foster carers, health professionals, education providers, placement services and other partner agencies.
• Support children's voices and participation:
  Ensure children and young people are actively involved in decisions affecting their lives and that their wishes, feelings, identity and cultural needs are respected.
• Manage complex safeguarding issues:
  Provide leadership in responding to placement instability, safeguarding concerns, allegations, missing episodes and other risks affecting children in care.
• Manage resources and service delivery:
  Oversee caseloads, staffing, workloads and team performance, ensuring resources are used effectively and service objectives are achieved.
• Ensure legal and statutory compliance:
  Promote practice in line with the Children Act, relevant statutory guidance, local procedures and safeguarding legislation.
• Drive continuous improvement:
  Contribute to audits, quality assurance, service development and improvement plans, ensuring practice meets Birmingham Children's Services standards and delivers improved outcomes for children and young people.

• Social Work Qualification - Degree or equivalent
• At least 3 years' experience as a social worker within children's services
• Social Work England Registration
• Driving license and access to own vehicle

• DBS check processed and paid for by Eden Brown Synergy
• Referral bonus if you refer a colleague or friend to us
• Bonus for finding your own job
• Twice weekly payroll

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.