Team Manager, Children in Care – Trauma‑Informed Lead

We Do Social Work; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Children's Trust in Birmingham, UK, seeks an experienced Team Manager to lead its Children in Care Service. You will manage a team of social workers, ensuring high-quality care planning, timely permanence decisions and positive outcomes for children and young people.

You will promote trauma-informed, relationship-based practice through the Trust’s connections count model, ensuring children remain at the heart of every decision and continuously improving service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading social work teams.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding.
• Ability to manage complex cases and deadlines.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills.
• Experience using MI to monitor performance.
• Trauma-informed, relationship-based practice.
• Permanence planning knowledge.
• Commitment to children in care.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise and coach social workers to deliver high-quality practice.
• Oversee care planning and permanence arrangements, ensuring timely decisions.
• Promote safeguarding, child-centred and trauma-informed approaches.
• Monitor team performance, casework quality and statutory deadlines.
• Support practitioners with complex cases and best-interest decision-making.
• Build effective partnerships with internal teams and external agencies.
• Implement service priorities and drive continuous improvement.
• Foster a positive, aspirational and accountable team culture.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Team development

Organisation

Workload prioritisation

Decision making

Analytical thinking

Partnership working

Job description

Birmingham Children's Trust in Birmingham, UK, seeks an experienced Team Manager to lead its Children in Care Service. You will manage a team of social workers, ensuring high-quality care planning, timely permanence decisions and positive outcomes for children and young people.

You will promote trauma-informed, relationship-based practice through the Trust’s connections count model, ensuring children remain at the heart of every decision and continuously improving service delivery.