Team Leader - Learning Disabilities

Liquid Personnel is recruiting experienced Team Leader to join its client's Learning Disabilities Adult Social Care Service Team at Coventry. This is a key leadership role responsible for supporting the operational management of a busy Adult Social Care team, ensuring high-quality services are delivered to adults with learning disabilities. Working alongside three other Team Leaders, you will share responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service, providing professional leadership, oversight and guidance to social care practitioners while maintaining a strong focus on safeguarding, practice quality and positive outcomes for service users.

The successful candidate will oversee case allocation, workload management, duty arrangements, supervision and quality assurance activity, ensuring statutory responsibilities are met and practice standards remain consistently high. You will play a vital role in supporting staff development, monitoring performance, conducting audits and responding to complaints, while working collaboratively with internal teams and partner agencies across health and social care. pact within a supportive and collaborative Adult Social Care environment.

What will your responsibilities be?

Providing day-to-day operational leadership within the Learning Disabilities Adult Social Care Team

Managing and delivering regular supervision to social workers and adult social care practitioners

Supporting staff performance, professional development and reflective practice

Overseeing duty functions and ensuring timely responses to referrals and service demands

Allocating work appropriately across the team and monitoring caseload distribution

Providing management oversight and guidance on complex cases and safeguarding concerns

Undertaking quality assurance activity to ensure compliance with statutory duties, policies and procedures

Completing audits and reviewing practice standards to support continuous improvement

Monitoring case progression and ensuring timely decision-making and intervention

Managing complaints and supporting the resolution of service user and stakeholder concerns

Ensuring accurate recording, documentation and case management across the team

Working closely with operational managers and fellow Team Leaders to deliver service objectives

Promoting person-centred, strengths-based practice across all areas of service delivery

Supporting effective partnership working with health professionals, providers, carers and external agencies

Contributing to service improvements, workforce development initiatives and practice excellence

Ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are fulfilled and risks are appropriately managed

Supporting the implementation of Adult Social Care legislation, policy and best practice guidance

Qualifications & Experience

To be successful in this role you must have,

Professional Qualification

MA, BA or BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work or CQSW

Registration

Must be registered with Social Work England

Experience

• Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care
• Experience working with adults with learning disabilities and complex needs
• Previous experience providing supervision, leadership or management support within a social work setting
• Experience overseeing complex casework, safeguarding activity and risk management
• Experience managing workloads, allocations and operational pressures within a busy team environment
• Experience undertaking audits, quality assurance and performance monitoring activities
• Experience handling complaints and supporting service improvement initiatives
• Strong experience working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and partner agencies

Legislation Knowledge - Strong working knowledge of

Care Act 2014

Mental Capacity Act 2005

Mental Health Act 1983

Human Rights Act 1998

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)

Adult Safeguarding legislation, policies and procedures

Strengths-Based Practice and Personalisation Principles

Skills

Strong leadership, supervisory and people management skills

Excellent decision-making and professional judgement abilities

Ability to provide effective oversight of complex casework and safeguarding activity

Strong quality assurance, auditing and performance management skills

Ability to manage competing priorities and operational demands effectively

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Strong partnership-working and multi-agency collaboration abilities

Ability to motivate, support and develop practitioners

Excellent organisational and workload management skills

Good IT skills and experience maintaining high-quality records and management oversight

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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