Team Manager - MACPT and a Children with Disabilities

Job description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Team Manager for its client's Multi-Agency Child Protection & Children with Disabilities Team at Wythenshawe. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking service that is at the forefront of the DfE Families First Reforms. As a test-and-learn site for these reforms, the service is helping shape the future of family support and safeguarding practice, including the development of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT). As Team Manager, you will lead a team of 2 Advanced Practitioners and 4 Social Workers, supporting high-quality practice across Child in Need, Child Protection, Pre-Proceedings, Care Proceedings and Adoption. **What will your responsibilities be?** - Manage and support a team of 2 Advanced Practitioners and 4 Social Workers. - Provide reflective, supportive supervision and professional leadership. - Oversee and quality assure safeguarding and family help casework. - Participate in a 10-week allocation rota, managing the intake and allocation of families into the service. - Support the ongoing implementation and development of the Families First Reforms. - Drive positive outcomes for children, young people and families through effective management and decision-making. **Benefits:** - Be part of an innovative service helping shape the future of family help delivery. - Work within a well-established service consisting of 10 Family Help Teams, a MACPT Team and a Children with Disabilities Team. - Receive monthly supervision and ongoing management support. - Access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. - Based at Etrop Court, Wythenshawe, with free parking available nearby. - Office-based working with home working available at the discretion of line managers. **Qualifications & Experience:** To be successful in this role you must have, - Social Work England registration - Eligible to work in the UK - Hold a full UK driving licence - Post-qualified experience - Degree level or equivalent in Social Work **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 - 203219 GH - 36600