Team Manager | Fostering Team | Tameside| £46ph

Tameside’s Children Services requires a Team Manager for the Fostering Team, paying up to £46ph !

• Location: Tameside
• Rate: £46.00 per hour
• Contract: Locum
• Hours: Full-time

About The Role

Are you an experienced Team Manager with a strong background in fostering services? We are seeking an exceptional leader to manage our Fostering Support & Supervision Team, providing strategic and operational leadership to a dedicated team of Supervising Social Workers.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality fostering services, ensuring foster carers receive the support, supervision and guidance they need to provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for children and young people.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership to the Fostering Support & Supervision Team.
• Manage, supervise and support a team of Supervising Social Workers, promoting high-quality practice and professional development.
• Ensure foster carers receive effective supervision, guidance, training and ongoing support.
• Oversee workload allocation, case management and service delivery to ensure statutory responsibilities and performance targets are met.
• Promote excellent safeguarding practice, ensuring the welfare of children remains central to all decision-making.
• Lead on quality assurance, auditing and performance monitoring to ensure compliance with fostering regulations, legislation and best practice.
• Identify areas for service improvement and implement effective action plans to drive continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the strategic development of fostering services and support service transformation initiatives.
• Build effective working relationships with internal teams, partner agencies and external stakeholders.
• Manage staffing, recruitment, performance management and workforce development.
• Ensure the effective management of financial, physical and human resources, delivering efficient, high-quality services.
• Champion equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice throughout the service.

Working with Tripod Partners offers you a number of benefits including:

• Your own dedicated specialist consultant
• Access to the widest variety of social work jobs across 150 authorities and private organisations throughout the UK
• Prompt and reliable payroll
• Free DBS and compliance service
• £500 referral fee

For more information, please contact Dylan at Tripod Partners on 07919 026892 or send your CV to dylan.nel@tripodpartners.co.uk

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