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Children’s Social Work Team Manager, Children in Care

£51.36k - £54.5k per annum
Full-time

Directorate – Children and Young People’s Services

Children’s Social Work Team Manager, Children in Care

Permanent, 37 hours per week.

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council Children and Young People’s Service. For more information about Rotherham Social Care jobs, please visit our CYPS Microsite: 

We seek to appoint a dynamic, caring and forward-thinking Team Manager; who has experience of working with children in care, for our Children in Care Service. The post is based in one of three Children in Care teams at Riverside House, Rotherham.

You will:

  • Lead a team of Social Workers to reach outstanding outcomes for children in service.
  • Be responsible for the learning and development of your staff and quality assurance of their work.
  • Have a good understanding of the issues affecting children in care, and experience of working with this group of children.
  • Remain child-focused in decision making.
  • Promote a strengths-based approach. 
  • Offer high quality, reflective supervision to a group of Social Workers. 
  • Add value and make the most of available resources with children in mind.

You will be a ‘critical friend’ to your team, providing high support and high challenge. You will provide leadership, direction and support to your team in order to achieve outstanding service delivery for children and their families.  

Come and join the team here in Rotherham! Why?

  • We have a strong, visible, accessible leadership team and a heartfelt pledge to deliver outstanding services to children and their families.  
  • We have an established ‘Rotherham family approach’ that assists us in how we work with families and also how we care and support our workforce.
  • We pride ourselves on our strong learning culture and use this positively to develop staff and improve practice. 
  • We strongly believe in ‘growing our own’. Your development, and career goals are important to us.  We will support you to achieve your career ambitions.
  • You will be joining an authority rated as Outstanding in 2025.
  • We have a generous annual leave allowance.
  • We have manageable caseloads and support Hybrid working arrangements.

ABOUT YOU

You will have:

  • A Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.
  • A passion for improving outcomes for children.
  • Management/leadership experience.
  • A positive approach to securing permanence for children in a timely way.
  • A supportive and empowering approach with which to support social workers in your team.

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please email:

Kim Wilson, Service Manager View email address on childrenssocialworkmatters.org

Closing date: 21st June 2026

Shortlisting: 22nd June 2026

Interview: 8 th July 2026 

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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