Team Manager - and Safeguarding

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include allocating and prioritising workloads to ensure the child's welfare remains paramount, while cultivating a culture of professional development and high performance. You will oversee the team plan, drive progress towards objectives, and ensure performance targets are consistently met, delivering an effective and efficient service.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration and, ideally, a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification or equivalent relevant experience. You will demonstrate the ability to lead and develop a team, addressing performance and development needs through effective support, supervision and coaching. Recent safeguarding experience in a frontline service is essential, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

You will be able to build positive relationships and consistently deliver high standards of practice and performance. In addition, you will support your line manager and deputise in their absence and have the capability to represent the service at a senior level when required. Good IT skills and knowledge of Liquid Logic would be an advantage.

Our Support and Safeguarding Teams are more than just colleagues—they're a community. Each team has its own unique identity, yet they share one mission: to protect and empower children and young people across Northamptonshire. With offices in Northampton, Daventry, Corby, Kettering, and Wellingborough, you'll be part of a network that covers a diverse and vibrant county. This particular post is based in Northampton, in a modern building with excellent office spaces and IT equipment, café facilities, and a central location close to the town centre, making it easy to access and a great place to work.

Our teams are described as a "work family" friendly, creative, and solution focused. Managers are approachable, and relational practice is at the heart of everything we do. If you're looking for a supportive environment where your voice matters, you'll feel right at home.

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do. We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

• SWE Registration paid yearly (social care colleagues)
• Recruitment Welcome Bonus £2,200
• Relocation costs of up to £8,000
• Retention bonus payments for established personnel
• 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health pension protection.
• Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
• Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
• A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
• Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
• Subsidised town centre car parking scheme

Children's support and safeguarding teams complete work with children who are subject to child protection plans, child-in-need plans and Public Law Outline/initial care proceedings. They also support multi-agency practice in completing pre-birth and parenting assessments and work with adolescents focusing on contextualised safeguarding.