Team Manager – Responsive Services (Children FIRST and EDT)

Overview

As Team Manager for Responsive Services, you lead the Emergency Duty Team and the Children and Family Initial Response Service, serving as the front door to Children’s Services. You will guide a cross-agency team across health, education, police and social care to safeguard vulnerable children and coordinate urgent out-of-hours responses. You’ll implement quality assurance, drive service improvement and performance, and foster an inclusive, collaborative culture. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to shape out-of-hours safeguarding and inter-agency practice for Coventry residents.

Pay / Benefits

• rewards and benefits package

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a social work team within Responsive Services and EDT
• Implement quality assurance standards across the service
• Drive transformation and continuous improvement to maximise outcomes for families
• Coordinate with partner agencies to ensure effective information sharing and decision-making
• Oversee out-of-hours safeguarding and housing-related responses for Coventry residents
• Promote inclusion, diversity and a respectful team culture
• Ensure staff have a clear sense of priorities and accountability

Key requirements

• reflective Team Manager with proven leadership of social workers
• inclusive leader who values diversity and collaboration
• commitment to practice improvement and knowledge sharing
• solid understanding of diversity and inclusion principles in workplace and service delivery
• ability to lead, transform and develop a service area to maximise performance
• Right to Work in the UK; DBS check clearance
• experience in safeguarding and inter-agency working
• commitment to upholding Coventry’s One Coventry Values

• inclusive leadership
• collaboration
• continuous improvement mindset
• quality assurance processes
• information sharing and safeguarding analysis
• inter-agency collaboration

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