Team and Partnership Manager(INTERNAL ONLY)

PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS 

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA / Locality Specific

Worker Category: Field Based Worker 

Salary: £49,221 - £53,826  per annum (Pro rata for part time)

Working Hours: 37 hrs 

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 9th December 2025

Interview Date(s): Friday 19th December, you must be available on this date from midday onwards.

We are looking for a Team and Partnership Manager to lead our Targeted Family Help (TFH) service in Charnwood. Together with the Service Managers and other Team and Partnership Managers, you will lead an inclusive service who are currently undergoing a review and have been through considerable change, it is therefore important you lead with care, compassion and enthusiasm and have a solid understanding of Targeted Family Help (TFH). This is a busy but rewarding role and you'll join a strong and supportive management team.

About the Role

TFH are on a journey to be an inclusive Service where a culture to celebrate Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is embedded and Discrimination challenged at every level together as a Service and a Dept/Council. We warmly welcome those from all cultures, ethnicities and beliefs at this senior level - this diversity is vital to our journey and strategic offer and is fundamental to our values and enriches the service we offer our Children and Families. We expect all candidates to have a clear understanding and passion to drive forward the Departments 'We Care Strategy' and have full knowledge of this and to consider EDI in their application form, any presentation and formal interview. 

Underpinning this there needs to be a comprehensive understanding of the impact of trauma (on our workforce and families we serve). 

You will have excellent organisation and management skills to support the Charnwood team in providing a high-quality service to our children and their families.

You will be an energetic, enthusiastic and experienced manager, who is able to share your enthusiasm and passion for practice with those you manage and wider partner agencies. 

You will have extensive experience of management in children and family services and an in-depth understanding of the interventions required to build safety and protect children from requiring children's social care services – however when needed there will be no delay in children receiving statutory intervention and help. 

You will be able to evidence your skills and knowledge of creative, innovative, and relationship-based practice and demonstrate your ability to lead and manage a skilled workforce. 

You will have a strong and credible professional reputation. 

You will be confident in your supervisory skills, having significant experience in supervision, and your ability to give clear direction and drive plans forward 

Signs of Safety is the expected practice methodology and having knowledge of this and an understanding is essential.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must respond to and evidence the following 7 essential criteria within your personal statement

• Significant, demonstrable experience working in targeted family services and in a multi-agency environment managing a team of multi-disciplinary staff.
• Experience of working with a focus on performance and outcomes for children and families to ensure consistency of practice and high-quality outcomes across a large geographical area. 
• Experience of building successful, powerful, and collaborative working relationships with peers, partners and a wide range of agencies that command respect, trust, and confidence.
• Experience of managing a broad programme of family support services, and of buildings which host variety of in-house, and partnership activities are delivered from.
• A successful track record of promoting and implementing change programmes, improving service quality, and creating performance cultures that drive up standards and performance. 
• A demonstrable ability to connect with customers and localities through listening, dialogue and community's needs and evidence of how this has translated into the delivery of effective interventions for children and families.
• A demonstrable ability to lead and deliver sustainable, collective high-performance through inspirational leadership of people, setting clear priorities and a strong approach to performance management. 

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Ellie Lowe - Head of Service - Strategic Lead for Families First Reforms

Telephone:

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How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

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