Team Manager - Adult Social Care

Job description

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Team Manager to join its client's busy Adult Social Care Locality Team in Bristol. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and resilient leader to work alongside another Team Manager, driving performance, service delivery, and positive outcomes for adults with complex and long-term support needs. This is an initial 3-month agency contract with the potential for extension. Flexible home working is available; however, candidates must be readily accessible during working hours and able to attend the office for meetings and service requirements as needed. **What will your responsibilities be?** As Team Manager, you will provide operational leadership across the locality service, supporting practitioners to deliver high-quality Care Act assessments, reviews, safeguarding enquiries, and strength-based interventions. You will play a key role in performance management, KPI delivery, workforce development, and service improvement. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will lead and support Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, and Social Care Practitioners while ensuring the safe and effective delivery of services to adults, carers, and families. - Lead and manage a multidisciplinary Adult Social Care team alongside a fellow Team Manager - Drive performance against KPIs, service targets, and statutory responsibilities - Provide supervision, support, and leadership to practitioners - Oversee Care Act assessments, reviews, and support planning - Coordinate and oversee safeguarding enquiries, offering guidance and oversight on complex cases - Chair safeguarding strategy meetings where required - Support change management and continuous service improvement initiatives - Monitor workloads, resource allocation, and service performance - Promote strength-based practice and positive risk management - Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to achieve positive outcomes **Benefits:** - £40 per hour - Hybrid and flexible working arrangements - Immediate start available - Supportive leadership structure - Opportunity to make a significant impact within a busy Adult Social Care service - Potential contract extension based on service needs **Qualifications & Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have, - Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or equivalent professional qualification - Significant Adult Social Care experience within a statutory setting - Previous management or supervisory experience - Strong working knowledge of: - Care Act 2014 - Safeguarding Adults - Mental Capacity Act 2005 - Best Interests decision-making - Health and Social Care eligibility criteria - Experience managing performance, KPIs, and staff development - Excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills - Ability to manage complex situations and make confident 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. BH - 202124 GH - 36073 #LPA