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Social Worker - Children in Care Team

Location Cable Plaza, Waterfront West, Brierley Hill, Dudley

Salary £39,152 - £46,142 per annum

Reference DUDLEY/TP/697/4823

Job Details

We are looking for two experienced social workers to come and join our Children in Care Team here in Dudley. These vacancies have become available due to positive career progression within the service and are a rare opportunity! If you are looking for the challenge of being a corporate parent to young people in care and are driven to achieve the best outcomes then this is the job for you. You will be a practitioner with a big heart, who role models' relational and restorative practice with children at the heart of everything you do to help achieve amazing outcomes for all our children and young people in care through building positive relationships and connections with our children, young people and their families The Children in Care Team in Dudley is a stable service, who support all children with permanency plans following proceedings, inclusive of adoption, long term fostering, residential care, connected family placements, progressing SGO and reunification. We work closely with our care experienced personal advisors jointly to secure positive and ambitious transitional plans for our young people reaching 18.

Hours: 37 per week

Salary:- Grade 9 or 10 - grade and salary subject to experience

Working for Dudley you will receive:

Manageable case loads

A comprehensive learning and development package

High quality professional supervision

Supportive and collaborative team working

Excellent progression opportunities

A significantly streamlined IT system allowing more time away from admin and more time to work with children and their families

We require social workers with 1yrs post qualifying only. Candidates who have not completed their ASYE programme will not be considered for this vacancy.

For more information regarding Children in Care please contact Amy Baker on or email

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About the Role

Northampton Children's Trust is currently seeking experienced Social Worker to join their Children in Care Teams, with a specific focus on court work.

This is a fantastic opportunity to manage a varied caseload and play a key role in progressing cases through court proceedings while ensuring the best outcomes for children and young people.

These positions sit within Children in Care teams, with a dedicated court function, requiring strong report writing skills and confidence working within legal frameworks. The role offers a hybrid working model, with flexibility depending on service needs.

Location: One Angel Square, Northampton
Rate: 38 per hour
Working Pattern: Hybrid (dependent on court hearings, CIC reviews, and visits)

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a caseload involving ongoing court proceedings
• Completing high-quality assessments, court reports, and statements
• Undertaking all statutory responsibilities as a case-holding social worker
• Attending court hearings and representing the service as required
• Carrying out statutory visits and participating in Children in Care reviews

Requirements

• Qualified Social Worker with relevant registration
• Experience managing court proceedings within Children's Services
• Strong assessment and report writing skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

If you're looking for your next opportunity within a supportive and forward-thinking service, we'd love to hear from you.

Our client Sefton MBC is looking for a Team Manager to join their Children's social care team.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Vibe Care are seeking for their client an Team Manager (Grade 15) for the Children We Care For team within Children's Social Care.

Based in Abingdon in Oxfordshire however be able to travel throughout the county and elsewhere as required and able to work flexible working hours, and provision of out of hours advice, guidance and decision-making as required

Hours: Full Time 37 hours per week

Key Duties:

• Supervision and line management of Social workers and other staff as allocated.
• To chair key meetings involving high risk and/or vulnerable children and young people
• Support the team to achieve permanency for children and young people in a timely way and ensure all decisions and actions taken are in the best interests of the child.
• To play a key leadership role in providing safe and effective services for Children in Care in Oxfordshire, and for promoting positive outcomes
• To link with key colleagues and to promote partnership working with key agencies to support LAC pathways
• Support Permanency Planning for children we care for and promote transition planning for adulthood
• Support performance management within the team and deliver on key performance targets
• Ensure the complaints to the service are dealt with in line with the complaints procedure and take an active role when required
• Ensure that services are delivered in compliance with legislative, contractual, regulatory and best practice frameworks
• Ensure appropriate budget management in compliance with financial management protocols

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for planning and delivering services that improve outcomes for children and young people
• Be sensitive to the needs of children, young people and families, and of the highest professional standards
• Accountable for effective case allocation, using supervision and analysis of management reports to ensure optimum case management and resolution
• To monitor and evaluate outcomes of services against agreed standards, and reporting to Children's Services Management Team as appropriate
• Responsibility for implementation of policy and procedure, and effective decision-making within delegated authority level, ensuring staff adherence to all directorate policy, procedures and standards
• Responsible and accountable for the effective analysis and management of risk for all children held within their team, and ensuring compliance by team members with the requirements of relevant legislation, guidance and procedures
• Responsible and accountable for provision of safe child in need, child protection and LAC care plans for children and young people, assuring timeliness and quality of assessment, planning, implementation and review, and working in partnership with children, young people and families, and partner agencies
• Responsible and accountable for effective team budget management, compliance with financial rules, identifying pressures and savings and bringing in a balanced budget
• Responsibility for professional and managerial staff supervision, in accordance with directorate supervision policy; for staff practice improvement and development, management of staff performance and ensuring under-performance is dealt with robustly
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with and quality of record keeping and report writing in the team, in accordance with requirements of the Integrated Children's System and directorate policy and procedure
• Responsible for effective service delivery through an adequately resourced team, using recruitment, induction, training and workforce planning methods to support the team's development and performance
• To act as the Designated Complaints Officer and deal with stage one complaints, and to work with staff and partners to resolve service problems and identify ways to improve services
• To provide cover for other Team Managers in their absence.
• To ensure children, young people and their families are appropriately consulted about services and that their views inform service delivery and development
• To ensure the team's commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity, inclusive and collaborative working practices
• To contribute to service planning processes, identifying future objectives and service developments, participate in directorate research and developmental activity, undertake project work in a specific area, consistent with the post holder's skills and workload

These are not an exhaustive list of duties/responsibilities.

Essential Criteria:

• Qualified Social Worker (B.A. Hons Degree, DipSW or CQSW) or equivalent & evidence of continuous training & personal development.
• Detailed knowledge of childcare legislation, guidance and regulations
• Knowledge of national standards for Looked After Children
• Understanding of the Integrated Children's System
• Knowledge and awareness of children's rights issues
• Understanding of national and local policy issues in relation to CP/CIN/LAC/LC
• Understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and diversity in service delivery and employment
• Considerable experience of child protection, children in need and looked after children services delivered in a statutory setting
• Experience of effective supervision or coaching of staff
• Experience of effective inter-agency working
• Experience of assessing and managing risk in children's social care services

These are not an exhaustive lists of duties/responsibilities or criteria

Vibe Recruit is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Our client Sefton MBC is looking for a Team Manager to join their Children's services.

JOB PURPOSE

• To manage, develop and lead a social work team in order to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable children, young people and their families by delivering high quality services that address need and lead to improved outcomes, whilst managing the reputation of the Service and the Council.
• To ensure that the Service responds to new challenges, priorities and requirements whilst maintaining the Council's statutory obligations and using resources in the most effective manner.
• Responsible for driving forward practice development, ensuring any changes are implemented into operational service improvement plans and actual service delivery is measured against the plan.

MAIN DUTIES
1. Ensure the Council meets its statutory obligations to safeguard children, complying with legislation, policy and procedures and relevant frameworks.
2. Work within safeguarding frameworks to investigate and manage risk where children and young people have experienced or are likely to experience significant harm.
3. Be responsible for the operational service delivery of the social work team.
4. Ensure that all relevant information is gathered to inform risk assessments and critically analysed to inform the plan.
5. Ensure that all work with children, young people and families decision making is robust by providing challenge and critical reflection with detailed analysis informing professional judgements.
6. Demonstrate a critical knowledge of the range of theories and models for social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities, and the methods derived from them.
7. Using Performance data and findings from audits and feedback from families and other professionals including complaints and compliments to continuously improve practice
8. Provide critical reflection, challenge and evidence informed decision making in complex situations. Provide professional supervision within Service area, modelling good practice and reflective supervision skills.
9. Apply the principles of the applicable Working Together (currently 2023)Framework to promote best outcomes for children, young people and families.
10.Work collaboratively with internal and external colleagues to co-ordinate service delivery. To chair/contribute to multi agency and Service meetings.
11.Actively engage in risk management policies, procedures and practice and to advise Senior Managers of resource shortfalls and recommend improved methods of working where appropriate.
12.Model effective communication skills appropriate to role and communicate effectively in highly charged or challenging circumstances.
13.Respond to the needs of children, young people and families, whilst meeting statutory responsibilities and ensuring views and wishes are heard and recorded accurately.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Wirral MBC is looking for a Team Manager to join their Frontline Children's team.

We are looking for an experienced Team Manager to lead a frontline children's social work team across assessment, Child in Need, Child Protection, pre proceedings and care proceedings.

You will be responsible for day to day team management, quality of practice and performance, and ensuring children are seen, risks are addressed, and work progresses within timescales. This includes oversight of assessments, CP plans, CIN work, PLO and court proceedings, with confidence to make decisions and escalate where needed.

You will provide regular supervision, challenge and support social workers, and be visible and available to your team. You are expected to manage performance issues directly, maintain clear standards, and support staff to improve rather than avoid difficult conversations.

You will work closely with senior managers and partner agencies, promote good recording and timely visits, and ensure children remain at the centre of all decision making.

This role suits someone practical, resilient and child focused, who can balance support with accountability and keep a team on track.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Description

Our Local Government client, Lambeth, London, is recruiting a Children's Services Team Manager to manage the day-to-day operations of the team and a team of social workers responsible for safeguarding and promoting the best interests of children in accordance with the statutory framework. To ensure that services are delivered in accordance with the Government policy, keeping up to date with new proposals and initiatives, legislation, policies, and departmental procedures and that these are customer-focused and of the highest possible quality. To provide leadership to frontline staff in delivering and implementing any future changes in policies, procedures, or other developments, and to support the service senior managers by advising on strategy, policy and future direction of the service, ensuring effective feedback and translation into service delivery.

Key Responsibility

To have led responsibility for meeting the performance targets of the team and to report these to managers and staff as required. To manage budgets and expenditure to ensure that resources are optimised in line with eligibility criteria and priority levels as prescribed in assessment and care management policies and procedures, financial regulations, and ensure value for money. To provide leadership, ensuring effective working relationships with other parts of Children's Services, the Departments (Education, Housing and Adult Social Care), external agencies (Health, police, etc.) and the third sector. minimum 3 days in the office.

Qualification Essential

• GCSE Grade (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.
• Diploma in Social Work or equivalent.
• Advanced Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, Social Media and CRM.

Please note: Only candidates who fully meet these strict requirements will be considered.

• Thorough knowledge of proposed and actual legislation, statutory regulations and Government guidance and standards relevant to children in need.
• Up-to-date professional and technical expertise in relation to children in need.
• Significant post-qualifying experience working in a social care setting with children in need.
• Experience in managing or supervising in children's social services.
• Experience of working collaboratively with other services, e.g. Health and service users, to deliver a responsive and coordinated service.
• Ability to engage the coach and motivate teams, and set their targets and expectations.
• Experience in successfully managing performance and providing clear constructive feedback.
• Experience in successfully implementing plans and projects on time and within budget.
• Ability to effectively plan and manage budgets and resources.
• Demonstrate a good Understanding of the political structure and role of elected members, and the ability to work collaboratively both within their own service and across other services.
• Recent experience must include significant exposure to child protection work and to Direct Line management of case-holding practitioners.
• Extensive knowledge of legislation, guidance, and procedures regarding vulnerable children and young people.
• Ability to effectively utilise the case management system and to use applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams.
• Sound judgement in evaluating options and making decisions in the context of social work practice, including providing case direction to staff.
• A positive commitment to finance and an adaptable approach to practice leadership.

Essential Compliance Requirements

• 5 Years References/Work History
• Enhanced DBS
• Willing to engage in the mandatory pre-screening application process.

Diamond Blaque Group, a leading public-sector provider, is acting as the employment agency for this vacancy. Our organisation is deeply committed to fostering an environment of equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.

Our client Wakefield Hiring is looking for a Children & Family Team Manager to join their Locality team.

Purpose of the Post:

• To effectively manage a Team, including all responsibilities.
• To play a key role in delivering high quality services and meeting performance targets for field work.
• To ensure that services are delivered in compliance with relevant legislation, local and national policy and guidance.
• To contribute to the management of Fieldwork Services.

Key Activities:

• Provide leadership, effective management and support to staff.
• Manage the workload and performance of the team, support staff to deliver integrated, high quality services that meet service objectives and priorities and targets.
• The allocation of work to staff (according to priorities) and responsibility for the management of work that is not allocated.
• Implementing safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Quality control and quality assurance.
• Complaints investigation and resolution.
• Recruitment and retention of staff.
• Staff induction, development, supervision and appraisal in line with agreed policies.
• Assessment and development of practice.
• To make the most effective use of resources (human, financial and others) so that services provide value for money.
• To effectively manage staff absence in accordance with agreed procedures.
• To take appropriate action under discipline and grievance, capability and other procedures.
• Manage and monitor devolved budgets.
• To ensure that staff operate within statutory requirements, council and directorate policies and procedures.
• To ensure that services offer equal opportunities to all service users and employees and that diversity within the service is encouraged and promoted.
• Implement Health and Safety policy and procedures and ensure employees are aware of and observe statutory and council requirements to achieve a safe working environment.
• Communication with employees, colleagues and senior managers and responsible for the dissemination of information to staff and for informing Service Managers and the Service Director of relevant issues affecting the team and service.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Our client Bury Council is looking for a Team Manager to join their Cared for Children team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide robust supervision, coaching, and development support to a team of social workers and practitioners.
• Oversee and quality assure care planning, pathway planning, risk assessments, and safety planning to ensure children achieve positive outcomes.
• Lead practice with children and young people who present with complex needs, trauma, exploitation risks, placement instability, and challenging behaviours.
• Ensure effective safeguarding responses with a strong understanding of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE), Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), and Contextual Safeguarding.
• Drive high-quality, child-centred practice that promotes permanence, stability, and positive life chances for children in care.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies, carers, education providers, and health professionals to deliver coordinated support.
• Monitor performance, statutory compliance, and service standards across the team.

About You

You will be a qualified and experienced social work leader with a strong track record in children's social care, excellent decision-making skills, and the ability to support staff working with complex young people and families.

You will have sound knowledge of:

• Children's legislation, safeguarding, and statutory guidance.
• CCE, CSE, and Contextual Safeguarding approaches.
• Risk assessment, safety planning, and care planning for children in care.
• Performance management and workforce development.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Team Manager - Children with Disabilities Team

• Location: South Tyneside

• Pay Rate: £37.00 per hour

• Contract: Full-time, Temporary/Contract

About the Role: South Tyneside Council is seeking an experienced and dedicated Team Manager to lead their Children with Disabilities (CWD) Team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled social work manager to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children and young people with complex needs and disabilities, ensuring they receive the highest standard of support and care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strong leadership, supervision, and guidance to a multidisciplinary team of Social Workers and support staff.

• Oversee casework, ensuring care plans are robust, regularly reviewed, and outcome-focused.

• Manage risk effectively and ensure full compliance with safeguarding procedures and statutory legislation.

• Allocate cases and manage team resources to ensure a high-quality, efficient service delivery.

• Foster strong collaborative relationships with health, education, and third-sector partners.

Requirements:

• Social Work England (SWE) registration.

• Social Work degree (Diploma, BA, BSc, or Social Work Masters).

• Proven experience managing or supervising within a Children with Disabilities or frontline Children's Services team.

• Deep understanding of the Children Act 1989, SEND reforms, and relevant safeguarding frameworks.

How to Apply: If you have the leadership skills and passion to drive excellence within this team, please submit your CV today or contact our recruitment team directly at .

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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