Children and Families Team Manager

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

Job Title: Children and Families Team ManagerJob Location: Gloucester Salary: £52,413 - £54,495 per annum Hours per Week: Contract Type: FTC for 12 months Closing Date: /12/2025 Job Requisition Number: This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for a Team Manager to join our Gloucester Children and Families team on a fixed term basis for 12 months.

We would like the successful candidate to join us in February 2026 however, dates can be discussed during interviews.

About us

For all your hard work you will receive the following;

between £52,413 - £54,495 per annum subject to experienceflexible and agile working opportunities 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous servicean option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per yearfamily friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervisionLocal 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 cycle to Work schemelinks to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Networkcareer development and qualification opportunities access to our Social Work Academypaid SWE registration renewalCycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)

Our vision

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.

Our team structures are designed to ensure there is the right level of support available to staff and that caseloads are kept at a manageable level with a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, 4 Social Workers and an ASYE making up each team's full complement of staff. We need resilient, driven individuals who will play their part in making our vision for Children's Services a success. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpin the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect. 

About you

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.
 

As well as your experience as a frontline social worker, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

Social Work England/ Wales registrationa recognised qualification in Social Workto have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012)a full driving licence and willingness to driveDBS clearance
 

How to apply 

For an informal chat about this role, please email or alternatively apply before the closing date.

*Please note, all our retention payments are non-contractual, pro rata for part-time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions. Our relocation package is subject to terms and conditions.

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

Interviews are scheduled to take place in person at Shire Hall on Wednesday 17th December 2025.

The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks 

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.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Team Manager Role Profile

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.

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