Interim Team Manager - Children's First Response Screening - Leicestershire County Council
Reed
Leicestershire
Contract
GBP 81,900 – 87,750
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Our client, Leicestershire County Council, is seeking two Team Managers for its First Response Screening team.
Pay rate is £42 - £45 per hour.
- One full-time post
- One part-time post (alternate Wednesdays, every Thursday, every Friday)
The role will involve the following:
- Demonstrate extensive statutory social work experience, confidently applying thresholds and child protection processes across public and private law, and stepping into practice support when required.
- Lead and support a team of screening social workers, promoting a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
- Oversee allocation and progression of contacts and referrals, ensuring thresholds are applied consistently and targets/standards are met.
- Build strong internal and external partnerships to enable effective and timely information sharing.
- Use performance data and KPIs to drive quality and throughput, embedding a strong data-informed culture within the team.
- Provide clear leadership, confidently chairing complex meetings, leading development work, and making advanced-level safeguarding decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Identify and support team training and development needs, ensuring continuous improvement in practice and maintaining timely, child-focused responses, including chairing strategy discussions where required.
- You will understand the complexity of the statutory child protection processes as set out in legislation and statutory guidance and evidence how you have applied these in practice
- Qualified Social Worker
- Fully Social Work England registered
- 3 years post-qualified experience in employment of a local authority (DFE rules)
- Must have good experience of Team Management in a statutory children’s social care setting
- Ideal candidate will have duty / first response / screening expertise as well as strong child protection knowledge
Alternatively, we are offering £300 if you refer a friend or colleague and they are placed successfully into this or any other QSW role.
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