Children in Care Team Manager
We are currently recruiting for a Team Manager to join our Cheltenham Children in Care team on a permanent basis.
Reward and support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- between £50,788 - £52,805 per annum subject to experience
- welcome payment of £5,000*
- annual retention payment of £3,000*
- relocation package of up to £8,000**
- 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 (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
- cycle to work 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
- paid SWE registration renewal
Right child, right support, right time, every time
We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.
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.
Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:
‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.
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
The Children in Care team is made up of a Team Manager and Social Workers who work directly with children in care and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC).
About the role
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
How to apply
For an informal chat about this role, please email .uk or apply directly on our website here: Children in Care Team Manager Job Details | Gloucestershire County/Gloucester City Councils