Locality Team Leader – Children's Social Care

Liquid Personnel is recruiting an experienced Children’s Social Worker – Locality Team Leader to join its client’s Family Help team, based in Portsmouth City Council, supporting families under Tier 3 and Tier 4.

You will have line management responsibility for approximately five to six workers, providing supervision, chairing meetings and overseeing the quality of social work practice. You will work alongside four other Team Leaders, providing support and contributing to the wider service.

Although interviews will be conducted virtually, the successful candidate will be expected to work from the office.

What will your responsibilities be?

You will lead a team of social workers and Family Help Practitioners supporting vulnerable children and families across Portsmouth.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing regular supervision, mentoring and professional support to staff.
• Managing staff performance, development and wellbeing.
• Overseeing complex cases and ensuring high-quality assessments and care plans.
• Chairing meetings and supporting decision-making.
• Undertaking quality assurance, case file audits and practice reviews.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, policies and procedures.
• Supporting safeguarding decisions, court proceedings and placement planning.
• Promoting restorative practice and a Family Safeguarding approach.
• Working collaboratively with partner agencies, including Health, Education and Police.
• Driving service improvement and achieving positive outcomes for children and families.

Qualifications and Experience:

• To be successful in this role you must have; Substantial post-qualification experience within Children's Social Care.
• Previous management or team leadership experience.
• Experience supervising and developing social work staff.
• Strong knowledge of safeguarding, child protection and statutory procedures.
• Experience managing complex cases and overseeing quality of practice.
• Ability to challenge, scrutinise and improve professional practice.
• Experience translating strategic priorities into frontline service delivery.
• Recognised Social Work qualification (Diploma, Degree or MSc).
• Current professional registration with Social Work England (formerly HCPC).
• Strong knowledge of relevant children's legislation and statutory guidance.
• Excellent leadership, communication and organisational skills.
• Strong analytical, report-writing and IT skills.
• Ability to motivate, support and develop staff.
• Resilience, sound professional judgement and the confidence to make complex decisions.
• Why Liquid Personnel?
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
• Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
• Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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