Team Manager - Community Team

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Social Worker to join its client’s Community Team at Trafford.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Social Worker with strong leadership and practice oversight skills to support the effective delivery of adult social care services within a community setting.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

• Lead and manage the day‑to‑day operational delivery of the Community Team, ensuring effective allocation of work, oversight of caseloads, and high‑quality, legally compliant practice in line with the Care Act
• Provide practice leadership through professional guidance, supervision, and decision‑making support, particularly in relation to safeguarding, complex casework, risk management, and strengths‑based approaches
• Drive service performance and continuous improvement through audits, quality assurance activity, and performance monitoring
• Build effective partnerships with health, housing, voluntary sector, and community organisations to improve outcomes for adults

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• Social Work England registration
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• A full UK driving licence
• Significant post‑qualified experience within Adult Social Care
• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Social Work

Benefits:

• Immediate start with an initial 3‑month contract
• Rare locum managerial opportunity
• Hybrid working 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 successfully refer*
• 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. We will provide appropriate support throughout the recruitment 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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