Team Manager - Child Protection

Liquid Personnel are in partnership with Knowsley Council to recruit an experienced Team Manager to manage a Child Protection Team. They have recently secured permanent funding to increase their CP service from 4 to 8 teams. This means their teams are only on Duty once every 8 weeks, this is where cases are allocated and the team have 7 weeks to work through Assessment and Planning.
Are you an experienced manager? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of Children and Families through effective Social Care? Do you want to be part of a team that cares and will value your knowledge, experience and you as a person? Then Knowsley Children’s Services could be the place for you. Following their recent Ofsted inspection, Knowsley’s Children’s Social Care Services (CSC) department are on an improvement journey they would love you to be part of.

• Lead and manage a team of social workers within the Children’s Services Child Protection service.
• Provide effective professional leadership, supervision and support to social work staff.
• Ensure children at risk of significant harm receive timely, safe and effective intervention.
• Oversee child protection assessments, plans and statutory interventions in line with legislation, policy and best practice.
• Monitor the quality, timeliness and effectiveness of casework and decision-making.
• Chair and oversee key meetings, ensuring children’s voices, wishes and feelings remain central.
• Work closely with partner agencies, including education, health, police and other safeguarding professionals.
• Promote a strengths-based, child-centred approach to safeguarding and improve outcomes for children and families.
• Ensure staff comply with relevant safeguarding legislation, procedures, standards and professional requirements.
• Manage performance, workloads, case allocation, staff development and professional standards within the team.
• Identify and address risks promptly, escalating concerns where appropriate.
• Contribute to service development, quality assurance, audits and continuous improvement across Children’s Services.
• Support a culture of reflective practice, learning and evidence-based decision-making.
• Ensure effective communication with children, families, professionals and senior management.

• Salaries will be increased and backdated from 1 st April soon to reflect a 3.3% pay increase
• A friendly, supportive team who genuinely cares about their employees
• A smaller local authority in easy commuting distance from across the North West
• Free parking
• Quick interviews
• Flexible working, manageable caseloads and a vast array of employee benefits details of which can be found below

• Knowsley are a Disability Confident Employer,meaning they offer Inclusive & accessible recruitment, offering an interview to disabled people, providing reasonable adjustments, & supporting existing employees.
• Flexible working, Hybrid working arrangements & family friendly initiatives;their flexible working scheme allows you to manage your hours & plan your life more easily. They will consider requests for flexible working. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time.
• Generous Holiday Entitlement:starting at 28 days leave with an option to buy additional 10 days leave
• Manageable Workloads- directors of their service work closely with the Heads of Service & Team Managers to ensure caseloads are manageable & you are supported.
• Differentiated sickness absence for individuals living with a disability.
• Menopause policy supporting women in the workplace.
• Newly Developed Bespoke Four-Week Induction Programme
• High Quality IT Kit supporting agile…