Assistant Team Manager – Care Leavers Team

Our client is seeking an experienced Assistant Team Manager to provide agency cover within our Care Leavers Team based in Newcastle. This is a critical leadership role focused on supporting young people as they transition to independence, ensuring that care-experienced young adults receive high-quality, timely, and outcome-focused support.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Operational Leadership: Provide day-to-day management and operational oversight for the Care Leaver Team.
• Staff Supervision: Supervise and support staff, including Personal Advisers and Leaving Care Support Officers, through reflective supervision and performance management.
• Practice Oversight: Ensure all practice is statutory compliant, strengths-based, and strictly aligned with Pathway Planning duties for young people aged 18–25.
• Quality Assurance: Oversee casework quality, critical decision-making, and risk management to ensure the safety and progression of care leavers.
• Multi-Agency Collaboration: Support and drive joint working initiatives with housing, health, education, and employment services to ensure a holistic support package.
• Service Improvement: Contribute to audits, performance reporting, and service improvement activities to maintain high standards of care.
• Management Support: Act as a deputy for the Team Manager as required to ensure the smooth running of the service.

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Social Work England registration and a recognized Social Work qualification.
• Significant Post-Qualified Experience: Proven experience in a senior or supervisory role, preferably within a Care Leavers or Looked After Children setting.
• Advanced Supervision Skills: Ability to provide high-quality reflective supervision and guidance on complex, high-risk cases.
• Knowledge of Pathway Planning: Expert understanding of the statutory duties and legislation surrounding care leavers and transitions.
• Leadership Capability: Strong ability to lead a team and maintain staff performance in a high-pressure environment.

Working Environment:

• Transition Focus: A dedication to supporting young people in their journey toward independence.
• Collaborative Culture: Working closely with commissioned services and internal partners to reduce barriers for care-experienced adults.
• Supportive Leadership: Providing the necessary guidance to frontline staff to ensure consistent and effective service delivery.

Our Client's Commitment:

• Safeguarding: Newcastle City Council is committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of care-experienced young people.
• Equal Opportunities: We are dedicated to achieving equality in our service delivery and employment arrangements.

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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