Children in Care Team Manager

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job. This post is open to job share. We are currently recruiting for a Team Manager to join our Cheltenham Children in Care team on a permanent basis.

Reward and support:

• Between £50,788 - £52,805 per annum subject to experience
• Welcome payment of £5,000*
• Annual retention payment of £3,000*
• Relocation package of up to £8,000**
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Access to our Social Work Academy

About the team:

The Children in Care team is made up of a Team Manager and Social Workers who work directly with children in care and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC).

About the role:

As a Team Manager, you will lead and support a team of social workers to deliver services of the highest quality. Ensuring statutory duties and best practice is followed, you will develop a team plan in line with Children’s Services strategic objectives and provide management oversight on all cases, with a clear understanding of risk. Your role will focus on managing the team’s workflow and quality assuring work through observations, reflective supervision and GCC’s quality assurance framework, as well as contributing towards the development of the framework itself. Through building positive relationships with colleagues within both the service and partner agencies, you will ensure we are able to provide support and protection for vulnerable children and young people across the county.

About you:

As well as your experience working at a senior/advanced practitioner level, either wanting to progress to become a manager for the first time, or with experience of line management or leadership, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• Social Work England registration
• A recognised qualification in Social Work
• A full driving licence and willingness to drive

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications. *Welcome and retention payments are subject to tax and national insurance deductions. **Terms and conditions apply.

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees.

Additional Information:

This position is subject to a DBS check. Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.