QSW - Childrens - Team Manager - Adolescent Safeguarding

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Job description

QSW - Childrens - Team Manager - Adolescent Safeguarding

Your new company
The Family and Youth Resilience Service, part of Early Help, includes targeted and statutory services. The Adolescent Safeguarding Team focuses on vulnerable adolescents (13-18) facing issues like exploitation and serious youth violence. They require skilled social workers to engage with at-risk adolescents, their families, and partners like the police. The team works with other service teams to support families in crisis.
Your new role

• Provide operational management and leadership support across service areas.
• Support the Head of Family and Youth Resilience and other Heads of Service.
• Manage up to 5 Senior Practitioners/Social Workers/Social Work Assistants, Youth Worker, Counselling Psychologist, or Family Therapist.
• Ensure high-quality interventions, effective case management, decision-making, and overall performance.
• Oversee adolescents across the social care spectrum from referral to care proceedings.
• Work with adolescents who are hardest to reach and carry the most risk.
• Quality assure work undertaken with adolescents.
• Focus on singular children, not sibling groups.
• Keep children at home where safe and in their best interests.
• Use the client's social work practice model, Signs of Safety, and adhere to quality standards and procedures.
• Attend operational management meetings.
• Represent the client at operational and strategic multi-agency meetings.
• Lead on building relationships with schools.

What you'll need to succeed
Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with a social work qualification and HCPC registration
  
• Evidence of continuing professional development
  

Skills and Experience

Extensive social work practice with vulnerable children and adolescents, especially within statutory frameworks like youth justice and social care.

Ability to manage high-risk situations, including safeguarding and public protection.

Experience managing caseworkers dealing with adolescents and families facing contextual safeguarding issues.

Proven track record in managing teams, performance, and professional development.

Effective risk management in services for vulnerable children, young people, and the public.

Strong background in integrated, multi-agency working.

Proficient in recording, monitoring, evaluating, and quality assurance of case work using various tools and systems.

Deep understanding of risk management and safeguarding in social care, including relevant legislation and policies.

Skilled in using data and evidence to inform decision-making.

Experience addressing equality and diversity issues in practice and taking action to resolve them.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about the client's vision, mission, and values (trust, value, respect).
• Proficient with digital tools like Microsoft or Google software.
• Strong organisational skills: time management, creative thinking, problem-solving, and multitasking.
• Able to work flexibly and independently with minimal supervision.
• Driven, energetic, and ambitious to achieve goals and deliver excellent outcomes for children.
• Committed to collaborative work and resource-sharing.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation and influencing.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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