Children’s Team Manager – Duty & Assessment – Tameside – £46

Ashberry Recruitment; Tameside; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Team Manager for its Children's Social Work Team in Tameside. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a committed team focused on improving services for children and families. You will play a pivotal role in transforming the approach to social care, ensuring that your team is well-supported and equipped to tackle complex cases. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and have a strong background in social work management, this position is perfect for you. Join us in our mission to provide the best start in life for all children in Tameside.

Qualifications

• Extensive frontline experience in social work and team management.
• Ability to build positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team providing assessment and intervention services.
• Inspire social workers to deliver high-quality services for children.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Team Management

Social Work Experience

Relationship Building

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

Children’s Social Work Team Manager
Team: Duty & Assessment
Location: Tameside
Rate: £46

Children’s Services in Tameside are on an improvement journey and are looking for a committed and enthusiastic Team Manager to join us in one of our Duty and Assessment Teams.

This is an exciting time to join Tameside, and you will be part of a service that is highly committed, welcoming, and supportive. We are continuing to transform our approach to how we deliver services to support children and families, having adopted a trauma informed strength and relationship based approach as our practice framework.

As a Team Manager, you will offer a high level of support and challenge to your social workers and inspire your teams to do their very best for Tameside children.

You will be responsible for a team providing assessment, planning, and intervention services to children in need of a statutory assessment.

With fantastic leadership skills and attributes, you will ensure your team members are well supported and equipped to succeed.

We firmly believe that all children in Tameside deserve the best start in life, and we are looking for the right people to help make this happen.

About you:

We expect you to have extensive frontline experience as well as a solid track record of managing and developing a team. Building positive relationships is important not just with the children, young people, and families we work with but also with colleagues and external partner agencies.

We are looking for a social work professional with considerable experience of working with children and their families in a statutory social care environment, specifically managing and supporting social workers and ASYEs, and a wealth of experience supervising complex caseloads on a busy team.