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, 

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

• Must be registered with Social Work England

• 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

• 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

• 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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