Team Manager – Child Protection & Fostering
Liquid PersonnelWakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Posted 11 months agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for a Team Manager for its client to lead a specialist service encompassing Child Protection Chairs, Fostering Independent Reviewing Officers (IROs), and the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO). This is a strategic leadership role for an experienced manager with a deep understanding of safeguarding, fostering, and review processes.
Role Overview
You’ll oversee a team of professionals responsible for ensuring the highest standards of safeguarding and permanency planning for children. This role requires strong leadership, expert knowledge of statutory frameworks, and the ability to drive quality assurance across multiple service areas.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will,
- Lead and manage a team of Child Protection Chairs, Fostering IROs, and the LADO
- Ensure statutory responsibilities and review processes are met with rigour and consistency
- Promote high-quality safeguarding practice and permanency planning
- Provide oversight and challenge to ensure effective multi-agency working
- Support continuous improvement and service development
- Represent the service in strategic forums and contribute to policy shaping
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Proven leadership experience in children’s social care
- In-depth knowledge of safeguarding, fostering regulations, and IRO responsibilities
- Ability to manage complex systems and drive performance
- Strong communication, analytical, and decision-making skills
- Commitment to promoting the welfare and voice of the child
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- 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 dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- 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.
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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