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<p style="text-align: justify;">Liquid Personnel is recruiting for an Adult Team Manager to join its client’s Safeguarding team, based in Durham, presenting an exciting temporary leadership opportunity to manage a Safeguarding Team within Children’s Services.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The role is suited to an experienced and confident manager who can provide effective operational oversight, uphold high standards of practice, and support social workers in delivering robust safeguarding interventions. Responsibilities include case supervision, quality assurance, and performance management to ensure statutory duties are met and children remain safeguarded.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What will your responsibilities be?</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li>Provide day-to-day management and leadership of the Safeguarding Team.</li>
<li>Oversee the quality assurance of assessments, care plans, and court reports, ensuring work meets statutory and organisational standards.</li>
<li>Deliver regular case supervision to social workers, offering guidance, challenge, and professional support.</li>
<li>Allocate work appropriately across the team, ensuring balanced caseloads and effective workflow management.</li>
<li>Chair strategy discussions and strategy meetings.</li>
<li>Chair Public Law Outline (PLO) meetings and support timely progression of cases.</li>
<li>Undertake and contribute to audits, identifying learning and driving continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Monitor performance and ensure effective decision-making in high-risk and complex cases.</li>
<li>Work collaboratively with senior managers, legal services, and multi-agency partners.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Benefits:</span></strong> <span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
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<li>Competitive agency rate of £37.66 per hour.</li>
<li>Opportunity to step into a senior leadership role within safeguarding.</li>
<li>Ability to influence practice quality and outcomes at a service level.</li>
<li>Supportive senior management environment.</li>
<li>Clear focus on quality, supervision, and strong safeguarding practice.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Skills and Experience Required:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-contrast="auto">To be successful in this role you must have;</span> </p>
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<li><span data-contrast="auto">Social Work England registration</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Eligible to work in the UK</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Hold a full UK driving licence</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Post-qualified experience</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Degree level or equivalent in Social Work</span> </li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Why Liquid Personnel?</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":276}"> </span></p>
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<li><span data-contrast="auto"> Free DBS and compliance service</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly</span></li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*</span> </li>
<li><span data-contrast="auto">“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-contrast="auto">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.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Reasonable Adjustments:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span data-contrast="auto">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.</span> <br><span data-contrast="auto">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.</span></p>
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