Team Manager - Duty & Assessment Service

Team Manager - Duty & Assessment Service

• Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire

• Employer: Bradford Children and Families Trust

• Pay Rate:£40.00 per hour (Umbrella)

• Contract: Full-Time Locum Assignment

• Working Pattern: Hybrid working (with on-site presence required for specific tasks and team days as defined by service needs)

Are you an experienced Children's Social Work Leader with strong management oversight and recent court practice expertise?

Bradford Children and Families Trust is recruiting a dedicated Team Manager to join their fast-paced Duty & Assessment service. Offering a competitive pay rate of £40.00 per hour, this role requires a confident manager capable of driving practice quality, managing initial child protection investigations, and overseeing complex legal and court proceedings.

• Operational Management: Provide day-to-day leadership, decision-making, and reflective supervision for a team of frontline Social Workers in a fast-paced Duty & Assessment environment.

• Court & PLO Oversight: Lead and direct statutory interventions involving care proceedings, Public Law Outline (PLO) pre-proceedings, and court work, ensuring high-quality evidence and reporting.

• Risk Management & Triage: Maintain robust management oversight on incoming assessments, Section 47 enquiries, and strategy discussions to ensure child-centred safety planning.

• Performance & Compliance: Drive team performance, statutory compliance, and assessment quality, working collaboratively with multi-agency partners.

• Qualifications & SWE: Recognised Social Work qualification with active Social Work England (SWE) registration.

• Management Experience: Proven experience as a Team Manager or Advanced Practitioner within statutory Children's Social Care (specifically Duty & Assessment or Frontdoor/MASH settings).

• Court Expertise:Recent, direct court experience and deep working knowledge of the Public Law Outline (PLO) framework and care proceedings.

• Adaptable Working: Ability to manage a hybrid schedule, attending the office for critical service tasks and team collaborative days.

• Competitive Rate:£40.00 per hour.

• Modern Trust Environment: Work within a dedicated Children and Families Trust focused on practice improvement.

• Flexible Hybrid Model: Balanced remote working alongside structured on-site team collaboration.

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