How you’ll make a difference:
At South Gloucestershire Council we are immensely proud of the skills, abilities, and compassion of all our social workers and wider team members . As a Team Manager, you will provide support, recognition, guidance, and professional oversight to team members within your practice area.
We are looking for a talented and ambitious leader to join our management group within our wider Children in Care Service to lead one of our children in care teams.
Whilst this role includes managing social workers allocated to a full range of children in care, which could include Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC), the team contains two social workers and a social work assistant who form part of our Early Permanence/Adoption Pod.
If you are either a current Team Manager, looking to develop their practice in a different practice area or an experienced practitioner with supervisory experience looking for their progression into management, this is an exciting opportunity to develop your career further.

What you will be doing:

• Day to day, you will have the usual targets to achieve, but you will also have a very supportive leadership team around you, that are always accessible from the very top down.
• It will be key for you to demonstrate leadership skills and able to get the best out of your colleagues and team members as we continue to implement further improvements across our services.
• It will be your responsibility to be a supportive manager so you will be able to get the best from your team members whilst ensuring they are fully supported and know how valued they are.
• You are responsible for leading and overseeing a consistently good service to looked after children and young people. Along with ensuring specialist assessment and support is undertaken and delivered effectively, improving the outcomes and promoting a positive future for children in care, Unaccompanied Asylum -Seeking Children or care leavers.

What we need from you:

• We require you to have relevant professional qualifications and experience in a relevant setting, such as corporate parenting or social care that must include experience of management of staff, and supervision of other professionals.
• Ideally, you will be able to evidence your ability to lead teams to achieve optimum performance in delivering excellent social care services for children.
• Given the elements of this role, you must be able to provide evidence of on-going continuous professional development and a thorough knowledge of current legislation and practice relating to children and young people’s services.
• We require you to have knowledge of and experience of social work practice in respect of early permanence and adoption.

What you need to know

• Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.
• You will be required to travel widely to a range of locations within the authority so you must have a current driving licence and access to a suitable vehicle insured for business use.

WE’RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE, BE PART OF IT!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Team Manager Children and Adult Health - Job Descriptio

• Day to day, you will have the usual targets to achieve, but you will also have a very supportive leadership team around you, that are always accessible from the very top down.
• It will be key for you to demonstrate leadership skills and able to get the best out of your colleagues and team members as we continue to implement further improvements across our services.
• It will be your responsibility to be a supportive manager so you will be able to get the best from your team members whilst ensuring they are fully supported and know how valued they are.
• You are responsible for leading and overseeing a consistently good service to looked after children and young people. Along with ensuring specialist assessment and support is undertaken and delivered effectively, improving the outcomes and promoting a positive future for children in care, Unaccompanied Asylum -Seeking Children or care leavers