Team manager Care Service (Temporary Cover 6 months)

We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Team Manager to join our Care 0-16 Service team at Southwark Council. As a Team Manager, you will provide strong leadership to a team of social workers and senior social workers supporting children in care aged 0-16.

You will oversee high-quality care planning, permanence planning, and safeguarding activity, ensuring children receive safe, stable, and nurturing care experiences. You will also provide effective management oversight, reflective supervision, and professional challenge, supporting practitioners to deliver relationship-based interventions that achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

The ideal candidate will have a recognised social work qualification and current registration with Social Work England, significant experience within statutory children's social care, and experience of leading, supervising, and developing social work practitioners.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing strong, visible leadership to a team of social workers and senior social workers
• Overseeing high-quality care planning, permanence planning, and safeguarding activity
• Ensuring children receive safe, stable, and nurturing care experiences
• Providing effective management oversight, reflective supervision, and professional challenge
• Supporting practitioners to deliver relationship-based interventions that achieve positive outcomes for children and families

Requirements:

• Recognised social work qualification and current registration with Social Work England
• Significant experience within statutory children's social care, including children in care services
• Experience of leading, supervising, and developing social work practitioners
• Strong knowledge of care planning, permanence, safeguarding, and statutory responsibilities
• Ability to provide clear, analytical management oversight and make evidence-informed decisions
• Commitment to anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and relationship-based practice
• Excellent communication, partnership working, and leadership skills

This is a fixed-term contract for 6 months, part-time, 3 days per week. An enhanced DBS check is required.

Salary: GBP 56,154 - 63,723 per year