Team Manager - Fostering Team

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Children’s Social Worker to join its client’s Fostering Team, based in Gateshead. We are a dedicated and supportive service committed to providing safe, stable, and nurturing homes for children and young people. Our team works closely with foster carers, partner agencies, and families to ensure the best possible outcomes for children in care. As a Team Manager within the Fostering Team, you will provide effective leadership, supervision, and management to a team of social workers and fostering practitioners. You will play a key role in driving high standards of practice, supporting foster carers, and ensuring statutory responsibilities are met in line with legislation and best practice guidance. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Lead, manage, and support a team of social workers and fostering professionals to deliver high-quality services. - Provide regular supervision, performance management, and professional development opportunities for team members. - Oversee the recruitment, assessment, approval, and ongoing support of foster carers. - Ensure compliance with fostering regulations, national minimum standards, and Gateshead Council policies and procedures. - Monitor and review care plans to ensure children and young people achieve positive outcomes. - Work collaboratively with internal teams, foster carers, partner agencies, and other stakeholders. - Manage team performance, workloads, and resources effectively to meet service demands. - Promote a culture of continuous improvement, reflective practice, and child-centred decision-making. - Contribute to service development and implement strategic objectives across the fostering service. **Benefits:** - Supportive senior leadership team. - Competitive rate of pay. - Flexible working arrangements. - Opportunity to lead and develop a dedicated fostering service. - Strong focus on professional development and continuous improvement. **Qualifications and Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have; - Social Work England registration. - Eligibility to work in the UK. - Full UK driving licence. - Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Social Work. - Significant post-qualified experience within Children's Services. - Previous experience within fostering services. - Experience of supervising, mentoring, or managing social work staff. **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 -**202317 **GH -** 36150