Children with Disability Team Manager in Bury St Edmunds

Become a Children’s with Disabilities Team Manager for Bury and help with our ‘Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.

We are on a journey in Bury and doing things differently. We consider that Team Managers are an important part of our journey, and we promise to develop your skills and support your learning. It is one of the most challenging and rewarding roles in Social Work. We want the best talent in Bury to influence the services we are developing for children with disabilities.

We help you grow and develop confident practitioners and teams, to be the best you can be. We are pioneers of the Hertfordshire Family Safeguarding Model of working with families and will provide training to learn new skills within our Model of practice. Within Children with Disabilities and Family Safeguarding teams, we use motivational interviewing and a multi‑agency approach. Social Workers, Family Support Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Recovery Workers, Mental Health Practitioners and Psychologists collaborate closely to support families to find their own solutions effectively, reducing the need for referrals to other agencies and improving outcomes for families.

At the heart of everything we do are the children and young people of Bury. We want staff who can form trusted relationships, working with the strengths in families and building on those assets, always looking for solutions to help families live together safely and for children and young people to thrive. Working collectively, we prioritise support, training and development within child‑centred practice.

If you are enthusiastic about improving the lives and opportunities for children, young people and their families and want to develop your practice, then we want to hear from you! We want to invest in you and have a clear vision around succession planning for our most talented workers. You will have the support and opportunities to progress your journey in Social Work.

As a Team Manager you will lead a team comprising of an Assistant Team Manager and 6 Social Workers, including an EHCP Social Worker. The team also has 4 Family Support Workers who complete direct work and undertake Short Break Reviews. Lead the team and oversee all team members, including Social Workers and Family Support Workers. Provide oversight of children and young people subject to child in need and child protection planning, pre‑proceedings, private law and public proceedings. Manage capacity assessments and cases with applications in relation to Deprivation of Liberty. Apply the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and maintain robust knowledge of the Children Act 1989.

We are looking for a Team Manager with experience of working with children with disabilities and a good knowledge of complex case management. Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. We guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Kate Press – Head of Service, on 0161 253 5023 / 07484010335 or K.Press@bury.gov.uk.