Team Manager - Qualified Social Worker – Fostering

🌟 Team Manager – Fostering
📍 North East | 💷 £37 per hour | 🕘 Hybrid Working (2 office days per week)

Are you an experienced Qualified Social Worker with a passion for fostering and leadership? We’re working with a proactive local authority in the North East who are seeking a Team Manager to lead their Fostering South Team on a 12-month interim basis. This is an exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role, supporting the professional development of fostering social workers and ensuring high-quality, compliant service delivery for foster carers and looked-after children.

📍 Due to the nature of this role, on-site presence is required for at least 2 days per week.


🧭 About the Role As Team Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for the regulatory compliance and ongoing support of mainstream foster carers in the South of the County. You’ll work closely with a Social Work Consultant (deputy manager) and senior leadership to ensure the fostering service meets statutory and inspection standards.
Your responsibilities will include:

• ✅ Leading a team of fostering social workers
• ✅ Providing supervision, guidance, and professional development support
• ✅ Overseeing statutory fostering functions, including foster carer reviews and approvals
• ✅ Ensuring compliance with fostering regulations, national minimum standards, and local policies
• ✅ Driving high-quality performance and quality assurance across the team
• ✅ Supporting positive outcomes for children through stable placements
• ✅ Contributing to audits, service planning, and strategic improvement initiatives

👤 Who We’re Looking For You’ll be a confident leader with a solid background in fostering or children’s services and a passion for improving outcomes for children in care.
You will need:

• ✔ A Social Work qualification and registration with Social Work England
• ✔ Proven experience managing or supervising within fostering or children’s social work
• ✔ Strong understanding of fostering regulations, safeguarding, and statutory duties
• ✔ A commitment to best practice, continuous improvement, and team development
• ✔ Excellent communication and leadership skills
• ✔ The ability to balance operational demands with strategic oversight

💼 Why Work Through Pertemps?

• 🌟 A dedicated recruitment consultant with access to roles nationwide
• ✅ Simple online registration and full compliance support
• 💷 Reliable weekly payroll
• 🔒 Access to exclusive roles not advertised elsewhere
• 🎁 Referral bonuses and rewards for recommending friends or colleagues

📍 Easily commutable from: Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, Brotton, Eston, Skelton, Loftus, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Durham, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington, Whitby, Sunderland, Newcastle, and surrounding areas.

🔄 Not quite right? We also recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work, including:

• MASH
• IRO
• Children in Care
• Adults Services
• BIA
• Residential Care
• Senior & Team Management
• Service Leadership

Even if you’re not looking right now, we offer generous referral bonuses — pass this on to a colleague or friend who might be interested!

📩 Apply now or contact us for a confidential chat — let’s help you find your next leadership opportunity.