Principal Manager - Children's Court Teams - Stoke
Posted 3 days ago by Caritas Recruitment
£41 Per hour
Undetermined
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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Summary: The Principal Manager for Children's Social Care Court Teams at Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a senior leadership position responsible for overseeing multi-disciplinary teams to ensure high-quality services for children and young people. The role involves managing complex cases, providing leadership and supervision, and implementing performance management systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in children's social care and a strong understanding of relevant legislation. This position is temporary and requires a Social Work England Registered Social Worker with the right to work in the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage and develop Children's Social Care Court Teams, ensuring safe, effective and child-focused practice.
- Provide strong leadership, supervision and professional accountability for social workers, senior practitioners, assistants, coordinators and students.
- Manage team caseloads, including complex public and private law proceedings, offering expert guidance and decision-making.
- Develop and embed performance management and quality assurance systems to meet statutory duties, performance targets and continuous improvement.
- Ensure services are delivered within legislative frameworks, budgetary controls and corporate priorities.
- Deputise for the Strategic Manager as required and contribute to service planning, improvement activity and partnership working.
- Promote a culture of high support and high challenge, restorative practice and professional curiosity across teams.
Key Skills:
- A qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
- Extensive post-qualification experience within children and families social care, including court work.
- Proven experience of managing staff, resources, performance and budgets in a complex statutory environment.
- Strong knowledge of child care legislation, safeguarding, public law outline and multi-agency working.
- Excellent leadership, communication and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage risk and drive service improvement.
Salary (Rate): £41.42/hour
City: Stoke-on-Trent
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Principal Manager - Children's Social Care Court Teams
Please note that only Social Work England Registered Social Workers with Right to Work in the UK will be considered for this role, please do not apply if you are not a SWE Registered Social Worker who has the Right to Work in the UK.
Principal Manager - Children's Social Care (Level 15)
Location: Floor 1, Civic Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1RN
Organisation: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Contract: Temporary
Hours: 37 hours per week
About the Role
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking an experienced and inspirational Principal Manager to lead Children's Social Care Court Teams within Children and Family Services. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for managing, developing and motivating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, cost-effective services that achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
You will provide outstanding leadership and management, ensuring robust supervision, performance management, and quality assurance across the service, while directly managing complex cases and supporting high-quality social work practice.
What We're Looking For
A qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
Extensive post-qualification experience within children and families social care, including court work.
Proven experience of managing staff, resources, performance and budgets in a complex statutory environment.
Strong knowledge of child care legislation, safeguarding, public law outline and multi-agency working.
Excellent leadership, communication and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage risk and drive service improvement.
Why Stoke-on-Trent?
Are you passionate about making a real difference to the lives of children and families?
Stoke-on-Trent is a city committed to becoming a child-friendly place where children's voices are heard and their needs come first. The council is investing heavily in learning and development, with a strong focus on:
- Restorative and Relational Practice - high support alongside high challenge
- Listening to Children - ensuring their experiences shape decisions
- Developing Social Workers - creating a supportive environment where careers can flourish
Here, you'll join passionate and ambitious leaders and practitioners, working together to create lasting positive change for children and families across the city.
For more information on this role or for a discussion about Social Work opportunities across England and Wales please contact Gemma at Caritas Recruitment - g.bridgman @ (url removed) / (phone number removed) Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.