The posting
Our client based in Wokingham is seeking an experienced Team Manager to join their Adult Social Care Service. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated and dynamic leader to manage a busy Adult Social Care team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, strengths-based, and person-centred services that promote independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes for adults and carers.
The successful candidate will provide leadership, supervision, and operational oversight to Social Workers and Adult Social Care practitioners, ensuring statutory responsibilities are fulfilled in accordance with relevant legislation and best practice guidance. You will support service performance, workforce development, safeguarding activity, quality assurance, and continuous improvement across the service.
This role requires a confident manager with strong leadership skills, extensive Adult Social Care knowledge, and the ability to manage competing priorities within a fast-paced environment.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Providing day-to-day operational leadership and management of an Adult Social Care team.
- Supervising, supporting, and developing Social Workers and Adult Social Care practitioners through regular supervision, appraisal, and performance management.
- Overseeing complex casework, providing professional guidance and ensuring high standards of social work practice.
- Ensuring timely completion of Care Act 2014 assessments, reviews, support planning, and statutory interventions.
- Supporting and overseeing safeguarding enquiries, risk management activity, and complex decision-making processes.
- Monitoring service performance, workloads, and case progression to ensure effective and efficient service delivery.
- Allocating work effectively and supporting practitioners with prioritisation and case management.
- Undertaking quality assurance activity, audits, and practice reviews to ensure compliance with legislative and organisational requirements.
- Supporting Mental Capacity Act assessments, Best Interest decision-making, and Court of Protection processes where required.
- Working collaboratively with health professionals, housing services, providers, carers, families, and partner agencies to promote integrated working.
- Managing resources effectively and ensuring services are delivered within agreed budgets and performance expectations.
- Responding to complaints, concerns, compliments, and service improvements in a timely and professional manner.
- Leading service development initiatives and contributing to continuous improvement across Adult Social Care.
- Promoting strengths-based practice, independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes for adults with care and support needs.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- Professional Qualification: MA, BA, BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work, CQSW, or equivalent recognised professional qualification.
- Registration: Must be registered with Social Work England.
- Experience: Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care, including management, supervision, or leadership responsibilities.
- Management Experience: Proven experience managing teams, supervising staff, and supporting professional development.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and associated statutory guidance.
- Safeguarding Experience: Experience overseeing safeguarding enquiries, complex risk management, and protection planning.
- Quality Assurance: Experience undertaking audits, quality reviews, and performance management activities.
- Multi-Agency Working: Strong experience working collaboratively with health services, providers, carers, families, and partner agencies.
- Communication Skills: Excellent leadership, communication, report-writing, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Professional Practice: Commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice and continuous professional development.
- Organisational Skills: Ability to manage competing priorities, drive performance, and lead high-performing teams within Adult Social Care services.
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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