Childrens Team Manager - Fostering

Our Client, a Merseyside council is seeking a Children's Team Manager to join their Fostering Team.

Fantastic payrate of £36.82 per hour!

Are you a Children's Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities of this role:

• Lead, supervise, and support a team of Fostering Social Workers, ensuring high-quality service delivery and professional practice.
• Oversee foster carer assessments, approvals, reviews, and panel submissions, ensuring compliance with fostering regulations and standards.
• Monitor the quality and effectiveness of foster placements, promoting positive outcomes and placement stability for children and young people.
• Provide management oversight on complex cases, safeguarding concerns, and placement disruptions.
• Drive the recruitment, retention, and development of foster carers through effective support and training strategies.
• Ensure statutory responsibilities, performance targets, and regulatory requirements are met across the fostering service.
• Develop strong partnerships with internal teams, local authorities, and multi-agency professionals to support children in care.
• Manage team performance, quality assurance, and service improvement initiatives to promote best practice and continuous development.

Requirements of this role:

• Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
• Must have minimum of 3 year's experience working as a Qualified social worker

Benefits of working through Reed, include:

• Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
• Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
• Free CV building and Interview support.
• Free DBS checks.
• Weekly payroll.
• PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
• CPD contributions.
• Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
• Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.

Does this role interest you? Apply today!