Team Manager - Social Care Qualified

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