Team Manager - Children in Care

Birmingham Children's Trust; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£1,000 incentive payment (first months

£5,000 retention bonus per annum

Relocation allowance up to £8,000

DBS application fee paid

Annual leave 30-35 days

Salary sacrifice car scheme

On-site parking

Hybrid/flexible working

Local Government Pension Scheme

Job summary

Birmingham Children’s Trust is recruiting a Team Manager for the Children in Care Service in a hybrid role based in Birmingham. You will lead a social work team, oversee care planning, and drive consistency through trauma-informed practice across collaborating agencies.

The role focuses on delivering high-quality services for children in care and those subject to care proceedings, with a strong emphasis on leadership, relationship-building, and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Excellent time management and organisational skills to oversee your dedicated team.
• High resilience, ability to manage and prioritise demanding workloads.
• Strong people management and leadership skills to lead your team.
• Ability to build effective relationships with internal and external partners to secure positive outcomes for children in care.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team to deliver outstanding performance.
• Oversee care planning to achieve permanence for children and young people.
• Manage day-to-day requirements of a busy Children in Care team.
• Collaborate with other professionals and agencies to uphold Trust values.
• Drive high standards of practice and positive outcomes for children in care.

Skills

Time management

Resilience

People management

Leadership

Relationship building

Problem solving

Planning

Tools

Management Information System (MIS)

Job description

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families?

Do you have the drive to support and empower young people to achieve their full potential? If so, Birmingham Children’s Trust wants you!

We are recruiting for a talented and passionate individual to join the Trust as a Team Manager within our busy and creative Children in Care Service.

You will lead and coach your team to provide outstanding performance within their individual roles. You will oversee care planning for our children and young people, where we strive to achieve permanence at the earliest opportunity. You will manage the day-to-day requirements of a busy Children in Care team where one day is never the same.

Supporting your team to form consistent relationships and connections with children and young people through a trauma informed lens is central to our work. You will work in collaboration with other professionals across the Trust and alongside other agencies, upholding the values of the Trust in all interactions.

You will be responsible for delivering and disseminating service priorities within your team, whilst ensuring high standards of practice and positive outcomes for children. This is a varied and vigorous role, and requires an ambitious, forward-thinking individual who is able to create an aspirational team culture.

This is a fantastic opportunity, working in a supportive collaborative environment where children and young people are at the heart of everything we do. The role is integral to realising our vision and you will lead a team of social workers, adopting our connections count, relationship-based practice model, in ensuring good quality services for children in care and those subject to care proceedings.

We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection. This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.

This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham so you must reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham and have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.

About You:

• You will have excellent time management and organisations skills to oversee your dedicated team.
• You will demonstrate high levels of resilience, managing and prioritizing demanding workloads.
• Excellent people management and strong leadership skills to manage your own team.
• You will be able to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partner agencies to ensure positive outcomes for children in care.
• Be a good problem solver, supporting your team of practitioners to make best interest decisions for children in line with legislative, regulatory and best practice guidelines.
• You will use management information systems to maintain and drive good performance and quality of the practice in your team.
• You will demonstrate professionalism, leadership and accountability and possess excellent skills in problem solving, analysis and planning.

Our Benefits:

• An incentive payment of£1,000paid in full in your first months’ salary (T&C’s apply)
• Retention bonus of£5,000per annum paid in monthly instalments(T&C’s apply)
• Relocation Allowance of up to£8,000(T&C’s apply)
• We pay your Social Work England registration fee
• We pay your DBS application fee and reimburse your update service fee
• A generous annual leave package of30 daysannual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service.
• Early finish every Friday!
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme which gives you the chance to drive a brand-new car for an affordable fixed monthly amount as part of a salary sacrifice initiative. With no deposits or credit checks required a range of all-inclusive driving packages
• Free on-site parking at our offices on One Avenue Road (Aston) and Lifford House (Stirchley). We also provide onsite electric car charging ports which are free to use!
  Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support and much more!
• Flexible and hybrid working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home and we offer a variety of working patterns, to support the needs of the Trust and to ensure a positive work/life balance for our employees
• You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme in line with the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Discounted gym memberships with Pure Gym and Nuffield Health