Social Work Team Manager - Permanence Team

Social Work Team Manager - Permanence Team - St. Helens - £38,813 - £40,760 per annum

We have an exciting opportunity available in St Helens for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join thier Permanence Team.

This role is located at the heart of England's North West - midway between the cosmopolitan cities of Liverpool and Manchester, and within a 90-minute drive of the Lake District. St. Helens has a varied and growing affordable residential offer, ranging from town center apartments to urban villages and rurally located executive and family homes.

Benefits as a Social Work Team Manager:

* Recruitment and Retention allowance of up to £4000
* Free parking
* Generous annual leave
* Huge investments in Child's Services
* A strong, permanent senior management structure
* Low average caseloads for social workers
* No hot desks
* A positive, open and working environment
* Attractive salary and relocation package
* Excellent pension scheme
* Essential car user allowance is available

Responsibilities as a Social Work Team Manager:

* Managing a team and supervising social workers
* The permanency service
* Working with foster carers
* Some understanding of the leaving care service/transitions
* Care planning regulation
* Developing permanency plans which include SGO and adoption
* Corporate parenting responsibilities
* Life story work
* Safeguarding knowledge
* Excellent working relationships with families
* Day to day case management
* Looked after children reviews
* Allocating work to staff
* Conducting formal supervision of staff to support them professionally to undertake their caseload of work
* Appraising staff and ensuring training/ learning needs are identified

Essential requirements as a Social Work Team Manager:

* Social Work England Registration
* Eligible to work in the UK
* Qualified as a Social Worker with previous management experience

For more information please contact swapplications@liquidpersonnel.com

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