Team Manager

Wax Recruitment Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Children’s Trust is seeking a Team Manager to lead a social work team and drive high-quality practice across services for children, young people and families in Birmingham. You will oversee staffing, safeguarding, and service delivery, ensuring compliance with SWE standards and effective collaboration with partners.

You will work in a hybrid model with substantial input to ensure consistent leadership and improvements across multi-disciplinary teams, contributing to trusted outcomes

Qualifications

• DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification.
• Registration with Social Work England (SWE).
• Experience as a professional social worker with solid practice background.
• Proven track record of managing change and service improvement.
• Experience supervising students or social workers; creating a positive performance culture.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, external agencies, children and families.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of social workers delivering professional services that meet legislative requirements and SWE Code of Practice for Social Care Workers.
• Provide operational leadership, vision and direction by delivering service improvement within a social care service or fostering and adoption service.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Risk management

Change management

Collaboration

Education

DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification

Job description

Location: One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B6 4DU,Birmingham Children's Trust

Salary: £30.41 per hour

Social Work England Registration and DBS Required

at least 2 days in the office

We are Birmingham Children’s Trust.

‘Working Together to make Birmingham the greatest city to grow up in.’

The sole purpose of Birmingham Children’s Trust is to make a positive difference for children, young

people and families in the city, by driving up the quality of practice and partnerships across the city and its

services.

Every employee from Family Support and Social Workers to Finance and Legal, work together to make a

positive difference to children, young people and families. We are one team, and each have an important

role to play in achieving the Trusts objectives.

Birmingham Children’s Trust Leadership team comprises of six Executive Directors who are responsible for

leading and managing the Trust to be an autonomous and high performing organisation.

Our Vision

Our vision is to build a Trust that provides excellent social work and family support for and with the city’s

most vulnerable children, young people and families.

We will do this:

with compassion and with care.

through positive relationships, building on strengths.

in collaboration with children, young people, families and partners.

by listening, involving and including.

in ways that are efficient and deliver value for money.

Success will mean significant progress towards these outcomes:

families able to make positive changes.

children able to attend, learn and achieve at school.

young people ready for and contributing to adult life.

children and young people safe from harm.

Our Values

ONE TEAM ACCOUNTABILITY

AND RESPONSIBILITY

QUALITY AND INNOVATION RELATIONSHIPS

HIGH SUPPORT HIGH CHALLENGE

Key Responsibilities

To lead a team of social workers delivering professional services that meet established legislative

requirements and adhere to the Social Work England (SWE) Code of Practice for Social Care

Workers.

To provide operational leadership, vision and direction by delivering service improvement within a

social care service or disabled children’s or fostering and adoption service

The Team Manager will be responsible for a team of staff consisting of 7; formed of social

workers, senior social workers, senior practitioners and social work support staff.

and

Adults

Basic

Enhanced x

Person Specification

Method of Assessment (M.O.A): AF = Application Form; E = Work Based Exercise; I = Interview;

P = Presentation; Q = Qualifications

CRITERIA Method of Assessment (M.O.A) ESSENTIAL

• Qualifications AF/Q DipSW or equivalent Social Work
• qualification
• Qualifications AF/Q Registration with Social Work
• England (SWE)
• Experience AF Demonstrates significant
• professional social work
• confidence, underpinned by
• practice experience and learning
• Experience AF Proven track record of
• successfully managing change
• and service/practice
• improvement
• Experience AF Experience of delivering services
• through a regulatory inspection
• process
• Experience AF Experience of providing
• supervision to students or social
• workers; creating a positive
• performance
• Experience AF Experience of building and
• maintaining effective
• relationships with colleagues,
• external agencies, children and
• their families
• Experience I An importance of robust financial
• management
• Skills I Pro-actively seeks to safeguard
• children drawing on a wealth of
• knowledge and sound
• judgement to protect children
• from harm and ensuring
• appropriate and timely action is
• taken when necessary
• Skills I Works collaboratively with
• colleagues and other agencies to
• achieve this aim.
• Skills I Demonstrates effective risk
• management skill and decision
• making.
• and responsibilities, assumes
• accountability and inspires
• others by acting with integrity.
• Skills I Builds and motivates teams,
• creating a positive environment
• which encourages open
• discussion and innovation,
• supports high performance and
• builds capability
• Skills I Communicates effectively across
• a range of contexts including the
• ability to create and deliver
• concise, engaging and accurate
• information to a range of
• audiences, adapting style and
• content to the needs of the
• audience and checking
• Skills I Ability to understand and
• interpret complex written
• reports and policy documents,
• including the ability to evaluate
• arguments.
• Skills I An ability to fulfil all spoken
• aspects of the role with
• confidence using the English
• Language as required by Part 7
• of the Immigration Act 2016
• Skills I Shows respect for diversity and
• values individual differences
• Skills I Treats all people fairly and
• appropriately regardless of race,
• disability, sexual orientation,
• appearance or position.
• Skills I Demonstrates an understanding
• of disadvantages and social
• Skills AF/I Must be required to have a clear
• understanding and commitment
• to equality, diversity and
• inclusion matters and to
• promote anti-discriminatory
• practices and behaviours.
• Skills I Focuses on results, taking
• personal responsibility for
• objectives and delivers a high
• quality service.
• Skills I Promotes change, considering
• options and taking forward new
• initiatives.
• Skills I Displays resilience and control in
• difficult situations, managing
• pressure well and encouraging
• others to be adaptable.
• Skills I Implements change projects and
• operational activities.
• Skills I Successfully builds and
• with colleagues and external
• agencies, children and their
• effective interpersonal skills in
• dealing with people at all levels
• and from a range of
• backgrounds.

At Birmingham Children’s Trust, we are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

and young people. We expect our staff to create an environment and culture that promotes equality,

diversity, and inclusion and advocate for anti-discriminatory practices and behaviours.D