Team Manager - Adult Social Care

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Team Manager to join its client's busy Adult Social Care Locality Team in Bristol. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and resilient leader to work alongside another Team Manager, driving performance, service delivery, and positive outcomes for adults with complex and long-term support needs.

This is an initial 3-month agency contract with the potential for extension. Flexible home working is available; however, candidates must be readily accessible during working hours and able to attend the office for meetings and service requirements as needed.

What will your responsibilities be?

As Team Manager, you will provide operational leadership across the locality service, supporting practitioners to deliver high-quality Care Act assessments, reviews, safeguarding enquiries, and strength-based interventions. You will play a key role in performance management, KPI delivery, workforce development, and service improvement.

Working in a fast-paced environment, you will lead and support Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, and Social Care Practitioners while ensuring the safe and effective delivery of services to adults, carers, and families.

Lead and manage a multidisciplinary Adult Social Care team alongside a fellow Team Manager

Drive performance against KPIs, service targets, and statutory responsibilities

Provide supervision, support, and leadership to practitioners

Oversee Care Act assessments, reviews, and support planning

Coordinate and oversee safeguarding enquiries, offering guidance and oversight on complex cases

Chair safeguarding strategy meetings where required

Support change management and continuous service improvement initiatives

Monitor workloads, resource allocation, and service performance

Promote strength-based practice and positive risk management

Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to achieve positive outcomes

Benefits:

£40 per hour

Hybrid and flexible working arrangements

Immediate start available

Supportive leadership structure

Opportunity to make a significant impact within a busy Adult Social Care service

Potential contract extension based on service needs

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or equivalent professional qualification

Significant Adult Social Care experience within a statutory setting

Previous management or supervisory experience

Strong working knowledge of:

Care Act 2014

Safeguarding Adults

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Best Interests decision-making

Health and Social Care eligibility criteria

Experience managing performance, KPIs, and staff development

Excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills

Ability to manage complex situations and make confident decisions

Why Liquid Personnel?

Free DBS and compliance service

Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly

Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies

Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal

Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge

Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK

“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*

“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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