Team Manager in Cheltenham

Team Manager

Job Location: Cheltenham

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

We are currently recruiting for Team Manager to join our dedicated Children in Care Team.

• Job Location: Grosvenor Hall
• Salary: £52,413 - £54,495 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 09/08/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14560
• This post is open to job share

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £52,413 - £54,495 per annum subject to experience (pro rata for part‑time staff)
• £5,000 welcome payment*
• up to £8,000 relocation package**
• £2,000 retention payment*
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part‑time staff)
• 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
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• 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
• employee discount 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
• Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

*Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions

*Please note that our relocation policy is subject to terms and conditions

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award‑winning workforce.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About the team

As a Team Manager, we’ll ask you to lead and support a team of social workers to deliver services of the highest quality. Ensuring statutory duties and best practice is followed, you’ll 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
• DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s)
• To have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact David Stewart at David.Stewart@gloucestershire.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Interviews are due to take place in person on Thursday 20th August 2026

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Careers hub