Peripatetic Team Manager – Adult Social Care #000A181B1

Admin/Office Skills, Data Input, IT Literate, MS Excel, MS Word, Skills
Oldham
June 10, 2025
£38 - £42 / hour
Interim / temporary

Job Description

🚀 Family Safeguarding Team Manager (3-month contract)

Children’s Social Care • Wigan Council • £49,427 pa equiv. (G12) • Start ASAP

Help us strengthen safety nets for Wigan’s most vulnerable children and families. We’re adding short-term leadership capacity to our celebrated Front Door service and need an experienced Team Manager who can hit the ground running.

📅 Contract at a glance

  • Length: 3 months, with review/extension option

  • Hours: 37 hrs pw, flexible & hybrid working (home / redesigned hub)

  • Team: 1 Advanced Practitioner + 6 Social Workers on a 5-week duty cycle

  • Model: Signs of Safety for robust, strengths-based early assessments

  • Reports to: Service Manager

What you’ll be doing

  • Lead the team through duty weeks, ensuring timely Children & Family Assessments and safe triage/sign-posting.

  • Drive performance and reflective practice; champion Ofsted-rated “Good” standards.

  • Model Wigan’s Be Positive, Accountable, Courageous & Kind culture and inspire colleagues across the Front Door.

What you’ll bring

  • SWE-registered social-work qualification.

  • Proven management of CIN, CP and court-work caseloads.

  • Track record of leading high-performing duty or safeguarding teams.

  • Deep knowledge of the statutory framework and Signs of Safety practice.

  • Energy to mentor practitioners while keeping children and families front-and-centre.

Why join Wigan (even for three months)?

  • Hybrid working & free parking for site days.

  • Manageable caseloads, dedicated Advanced Practitioner support, peer reflective supervision and active service-development forums.

  • Welcoming culture where colleagues say they “feel well supported by managers and leaders during challenging times.”

Ready to steady the Front Door?

Email your CV to rob@semester.co.uk or call 0161 419 9285 for a confidential conversation today.

Join us to keep Wigan’s children safer—and see why practitioners choose to stay.

You must have:

  • Post qualified experience.

  • Enhanced DBS/Update service.

  • References required for the last 5 years of employment.

Benefits of working with Semester.co.uk:

  • Free on-going training opportunities upon registering as part of our commitment to you.

  • Competitive Rates of pay

  • In house payroll, providing weekly payments and support

  • Enhanced DBS completed.

  • Support and expert advice from an approachable, dedicated and friendly team

  • An assigned dedicated & experienced consultant

  • Various employment opportunities in your preferred geographical area

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