Team Manager Safeguarding

Liquid Personnel are currently looking for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join the Safeguarding team in Haringey.

Haringey is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as they strive for excellence in all they do. They're a service with high ambitions; a place to work that is full of energy and focus. This is an excellent opportunity to join a team which has passion, integrity, and commitment.

• Generous annual leave
• Flexible working
• Flexible retirement
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Learning and development courses at work, including workshops and courses

• Provide management and support which ensures the team delivers a high quality social work service to children and families working in partnership with other statutory and third sector organisations
• Ensure that the team of Social Workers, Senior Practitioners and other social care staff are provided with excellent management, supervision, appraisal and personal development opportunities.
• Contribute to the development of practice and policy initiatives across children’s services.

• Ability to provide leadership to the team
• Understanding of Performance Assessment Framework within the context of high quality social work practice.
• Ability to provide leadership to the team; supervise staff, to assess professional competence and enable further professional development in others; influence and coach others and to raise the standards of other practitioners
• Social Work qualified, with valid Social Work England registration

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.