Hybrid Social Work Team Manager – Looked After Children

Remedy Recruitment Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal consultant

Top tier supplier across London

Referral bonus - up to £250 per person

Double payrolls each week

Job summary

Remedy Recruitment Group is assisting Shropshire Council in recruiting a Social Work Team Manager for the Children Looked After service. The role involves supervising a team of seven social workers, chairing multi‑agency meetings, and ensuring timely progression of care plans, SGOs, and risk management efforts.

The post requires strong leadership, a responsibility for performance oversight, and availability to chair meetings in person; hybrid working with occasional travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• To provide management cover to an additional capacity team with responsibility for looked after children.
• Supervise a team of 7 social workers, meeting the requirement for all children to receive supervision on a 4 weekly basis.
• To chair multi-agency meetings in relation to permanence planning and risk management, providing comprehensive management oversight to progress young people's plans.
• To progress plans of SGO or discharges of care order, working with legal services to ensure this is progressed in a timely way.
• To quality assure key documents and assessments in a timely manner as part of care planning regulations and to meet the needs of the service.
• To provide performance oversight for the team, attending a weekly performance meeting to share current data and agree a plan to remedy any outstanding tasks.
• To act as a duty manager for the CLA and UASC Service, covering annual leave and staff sickness.

Skills

Team leadership

Job description

Remedy Recruitment Group is assisting Shropshire Council in recruiting a Social Work Team Manager for the Children Looked After service. The role involves supervising a team of seven social workers, chairing multi‑agency meetings, and ensuring timely progression of care plans, SGOs, and risk management efforts.

The post requires strong leadership, a responsibility for performance oversight, and availability to chair meetings in person; hybrid working with occasional travel may be required.