Team Manager - Social Care Qualified

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

Team Manager – Children in Care

Organisation:Birmingham Children's Trust
Service:Children in Care
Location:Birmingham, UK

Job Purpose

Birmingham Children's Trust is seeking an experienced and passionate Team Manager to lead its Children in Care Service. You will manage and support 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’sConnections Countmodel, ensuring children remain at the heart of every decision.

Key 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.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong leadership, people management and team development skills.
• Excellent organisation, time management and workload prioritisation.
• Resilience in managing competing demands and complex situations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Experience using management information to monitor performance and improve practice.
• Excellent communication and partnership-working skills.
• Sound understanding of children in care, care proceedings and permanence planning.
• Commitment to safeguarding