Team Manager – Children in Care
Organisation: Birmingham Children’s Trust
Service: Children in Care
Location: Birmingham, UK
Job Purpose
Birmingham Children’s Trust is seeking an experienced and passionate Team Manager to lead its Children in Care Service. You will manage and support a team of social workers, ensuring high-quality care planning, timely permanence decisions and positive outcomes for children and young people.
You will promote trauma-informed, relationship-based practice through the Trust’s Connections Count model, ensuring children remain at the heart of every decision.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, supervise and coach social workers to deliver high-quality practice.
- Oversee care planning and permanence arrangements, ensuring timely decisions.
- Promote safeguarding, child-centred and trauma-informed approaches.
- Monitor team performance, casework quality and statutory deadlines.
- Support practitioners with complex cases and best-interest decision-making.
- Build effective partnerships with internal teams and external agencies.
- Implement service priorities and drive continuous improvement.
- Foster a positive, aspirational and accountable team culture.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Strong leadership, people management and team development skills.
- Excellent organisation, time management and workload prioritisation.
- Resilience in managing competing demands and complex situations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Experience using management information to monitor performance and improve practice.
- Excellent communication and partnership-working skills.
- Sound understanding of children in care, care proceedings and permanence planning.
- Commitment to safeguarding