Deputy Team Manager - LD & Autism

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Deputy Team Manager to join its client’s LD & Autism team, based at Blackpool.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

Oversee day‑to‑day workflow across the LD & Autism team, providing supervision, case direction, and quality assurance to ensure statutory duties, safeguarding thresholds, and Care Act responsibilities are consistently met

Lead on complex, high‑risk, or escalated cases involving adults with learning disabilities and autism, offering professional guidance, chairing MDT discussions, and ensuring robust risk management, person‑centred planning, and legal compliance

Drive service improvement through performance monitoring, audit activity, and practice development, embedding strengths‑based approaches and working collaboratively with health, commissioning, and provider partners

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role, you must have:

Social Work England registration

Eligibility to work in the UK

A full UK driving licence

Significant post‑qualified experience within Learning Disability and/or Autism services

Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Social Work

Experience supervising staff and managing complex casework

Benefits:

Immediate start with an initial 3‑month contract

Rare locum managerial opportunity

Hybrid working arrangements

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

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 throughout the recruitment 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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