Team Manager - Social Care Qualified

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