Team Manager - Referral and Assessment

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Team Manager to join Bolton Council's Referral and Assessment Team based at Castle Hill, working across the borough.

What will your responsibilities be? 

•  Manage and lead an efficient and effective Referral and Assessment Team, ensuring timely and high-quality responses to referrals concerning children and families.
• Provide management oversight of assessments, safeguarding interventions, and decision-making processes, ensuring statutory duties and performance targets are met.
• Supervise, support, and develop social work staff through regular supervision, performance management, and workforce development activities.
• Oversee recruitment, selection, induction, and retention of staff to maintain a skilled and effective team.
• Ensure effective workload management, resource allocation, and service delivery across the team.
• Chair and facilitate professional meetings, strategy discussions, multi-agency meetings, and decision-making forums.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies to promote positive outcomes for children and families and ensure effective safeguarding practice.
• Oversee quality assurance processes and monitor compliance with legislation, policies, procedures, and professional standards.
• Review and quality assure assessments, reports, and case recording to ensure high standards of practice.
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives, audits, inspections, and project work across Children's Services.
• Manage financial resources and support budget monitoring and resource management.
• Ensure accurate recording, reporting, and use of management information systems to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Lead on disciplinary, grievance, capability, and attendance management processes where required.

Benefits: 

• Excellent rate of pay
  
• Great Senior Management Support
  
• Flexible/Hybrid working
  
• Free onsite parking
  
• Paid for a 37-hour working week
  
• MS Teams interviews

Qualifications and Experience: 

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.
• Degree level qualification in Social Work (DipSW/CQSW or equivalent).
• Extensive post-qualification experience within Children's Social Care. 

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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