Team Manager - Awaken; Wider Exploitation Team Council Posted yesterday Blackpoo

Contract Type
:
Permanent

Hours
: 37 per week

Salary
: NJC Grade H4 SCP 41-46 £ 52,413 - £57,881 per annum

Closing Date
:
Monday 27th July 2026 at 23:59

About the Role

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced team manager to co‑manage Blackpool’s well established Awaken, child exploitation and missing from home team. Awaken is a multi‑agency team dedicated to tackling all forms of child exploitation and safeguarding vulnerable children and young people.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a service that leads the way in responding to Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), and Missing Children.

Our approach is rooted in trauma‑informed practice and relationship‑based work, ensuring interventions build trust and deliver better outcomes for children and families. We are committed to developing a skilled, satisfied workforce and fostering creativity in safeguarding practice.

• Provide operational leadership and supervision to social workers and family workers, ensuring high‑quality practice and compliance with statutory safeguarding duties.
• Drive a trauma‑informed, strengths‑based approach across all aspects of service delivery.
• Coordinate responses to all forms of child exploitation, including contextual safeguarding strategies.
• Chair and contribute to multi‑agency meetings, ensuring effective information sharing and joint decision‑making.
• Support workforce development through training, reflective practice, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Monitor performance and contribute to service development initiatives that enhance outcomes for children and young people.
• Deliver training to the partnership.

• Proven ability to manage and supervise staff within a multi‑agency setting.
• Excellent communication and partnership‑building skills.
• Knowledge and experience of working with children who are vulnerable to or affected by exploitation.
• Strong understanding of trauma‑informed practice and contextual safeguarding.
• Ability to lead creatively and collaboratively, with a focus on impact and outcomes.

• Social Work qualification (or equivalent) and registration with Social Work England.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in safeguarding and exploitation.

Be part of a forward‑thinking service committed to relationship‑based practice and trauma‑informed approaches.

Work in a co‑located, integrated multi‑agency team tackling exploitation in innovative ways.

Contribute to Blackpool’s improvement journey and help shape a service that makes a real difference.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed; guidance on the filtering of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) -