Social Worker - Team Manager - Safeguarding Team

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.

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.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Provide day-to-day management and leadership of the Safeguarding Team.
• Oversee the quality assurance of assessments, care plans, and court reports, ensuring work meets statutory and organisational standards.
• Deliver regular case supervision to social workers, offering guidance, challenge, and professional support.
• Allocate work appropriately across the team, ensuring balanced caseloads and effective workflow management.
• Chair strategy discussions and strategy meetings.
• Chair Public Law Outline (PLO) meetings and support timely progression of cases.
• Undertake and contribute to audits, identifying learning and driving continuous improvement.
• Monitor performance and ensure effective decision-making in high-risk and complex cases.
• Work collaboratively with senior managers, legal services, and multi-agency partners.

Benefits: 

• Competitive agency rate of £37.66 per hour.
• Opportunity to step into a senior leadership role within safeguarding.
• Ability to influence practice quality and outcomes at a service level.
• Supportive senior management environment.
• Clear focus on quality, supervision, and strong safeguarding practice.

Skills and Experience Required: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Social Work England registration 
• Eligible to work in the UK 
• Hold a full UK driving licence 
• Post-qualified experience 
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work   

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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