Deputy Team Manager Early Help Hub, Fixed Term

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

Job Location: Quedgeley

Salary: 41,771 - 47,181 per annum

Hours per Week: 37.00

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Duration: One Year

Closing Date: 05/07/2026

This post is open to job share.

We are currently recruiting for a Deputy Team Manager to join our Early Help Hub on a 1 year fixed term contract.

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

• Between 41,771 - 47,181 per annum subject to experience
• 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
• 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)

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.

You will be joining our Early Help Hub, which is part of Front Door to Children’s services, working with MASH partners to enable effective decision making for children and families. You will join the Management Group which includes a Team Manager and 2 other Deputy Team Managers alongside Early Help Practitioners.

Working as a Deputy Team Manager within the Early Help triage team you would be expected to assist the Manager in decision making in relation to Early Help and ensuring the right levels of intervention decision is made so that families can access support from the right place at the right time. You will demonstrate clear decision making and problem solving to ensure effective risk management and planning good outcomes for children and their families. You will provide appropriate support, supervision, and performance management through line management, striving for excellence by working with the Manager and colleagues to deliver best practice. You will benefit from our commitment to delivering the best possible service to children and families, and the chance to join an experienced and dynamic team. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpins the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity, and Respect.

We are looking for someone with experience of working with children, young people, families, and communities to deliver a wide range of interventions. Experience of working with multi-agency assessments and plans is also a must. Academic qualifications to degree level or equivalent professional qualification relevant to the field of Children, Young People and Families. Relevant experience working in/across Children’s Social Care and Early Help delivering direct interventions to children and families.

For an informal chat about this role, please contact us. 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 the 13th July 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.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

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. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior).

To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

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. We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a customer facing role must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

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.