Job Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting Team Manager for its client's Family Safeguarding Team at Swindon.

What will your responsibilities be?

• We’re looking for a new Team Manager for our Family Safeguarding Team.
• You’ll lead, support and develop incredible people who are working exceptionally hard to ensure that all our children can achieve their potential.
• As a Team Manager you will develop and grow relationships within the team and with our partners to deliver an effective service, which is timely, within budget and in line with policies and procedures.
• You will provide quality supervision to support social workers alongside children, young people and their families to champion their needs whilst building trust and confidence.

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

About our client:

They are proud to be one of just a few local authorities in the country using the Family Safeguarding Model, bringing together one team of workers with a range of skills and knowledge to offer help and support to families experiencing a wide range of challenges.

Their Family Safeguarding Model teams include:

• Social Workers – who work directly with families and support them to identify and make lasting changes that improve their lives
• Domestic Abuse Practitioners – who support individuals experiencing or who have experienced domestic abuse, helping them understand the impact on themselves and their children
• Recovery Workers – who work with families seeking support with alcohol or substance misuse issues
• Mental Health Workers – who support parents to understand their thoughts and emotions and the impact their mental health may have on their children

Together, these teams combine their knowledge and expertise to assess the needs of the whole family, providing tailored services and support to meet those needs.

To find out more about the Family Safeguarding Model, please click here.

Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as required by Part 7 of the Immigration Act for the effective performance of a customer‑facing role).

Our clients’ commitment to development

Our clients are dedicated to ensuring that practitioners can progress their continued professional development and access training and learning opportunities linked to the BASW competencies for career progression.

Our clients have an established Social Work & Leadership Academy, which aims to celebrate best practice in Social Work and Social Care Leadership. The Academy demonstrates how our clients support, develop, and value professional disciplines through a targeted framework of career development and learning opportunities.

Your next package

• Relocation allowance of up to £8,000 (eligibility criteria applies)
• Competitive salaries
• Free car parking at our central Swindon campus and easy commuter links to many locations

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.

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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