Assistant Team Manager - Durham - Children In Care Team

Liquid Personnel is currently seeking an experienced and dedicated Assistant Team Manager to join Durham's Children in care Team.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working options available
• Supportive management

As Team Manager you will:

• You will build effective relationships with children, young people, and families and ensure that children and young people lead their care planning. You will advocate and appreciate individual need to achieve outcomes based on evidence-based assessments.
• You will spend quality time with Children in our care, understanding their views, their life events and supporting them to understand and recover from what has happened.
• Working with the child you will complete and update assessments and review the care plan.
• You will assess and manage risk with the support of your Team Manager.
• You will be part of a strong multi-agency team including education, health and our own therapeutic service Full Circle.
• You will be part of a Service that is constantly seeking to improve outcomes for Children in our care and be part of developing this service further. Your ideas and aspirations will be very important to us.

What we are looking for in a Team Manager:

• Hold a fully accredited DipSW/Social Work degree (equivalent to Level 6 NQF), are registered with Social Work England, and have a management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Have a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience in Children's Social Care
• Experience of working with all service user groups and with service users from the minority ethnic groups
• Experience of interpreting and applying the law relating to children and / or to adult services
• Experience of child protection and childcare work and issues arising

Why Liquid Personnel?

• 'Faster Pay' service getting you paid more quickly
• Twice weekly payroll and an internal 'hours' team
• Free DBS and compliance service
• 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 personal consultant with extensive social work knowledge. Your consultant's service will be personally tailored to you as an individual
• 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.

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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