Gloucestershire County Council
Family Help Team Manager
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Family Help Team Manager
Job Details
Job Title: Family Help Team Manager
Job Location: Stroud and Cheltenham
Salary: £54,143 - £56,293 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent & FTC
Closing Date: 28/10/2026
Job Requisition Number: 15002
Job Share: Open to job share
About the Role
As Team Manager, you will provide strong leadership and oversight to a team of social workers and alternatively qualified practitioners delivering services to disabled children with complex needs. You will play a key role in ensuring high-quality practice, safeguarding children and young people, and working collaboratively with families, education, health, and partner agencies to achieve the best possible outcomes.
You will:
- Lead and manage the team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services for children and families
- Provide management oversight for children, including safeguarding and statutory interventions where required
- Work closely with health, education, and partner agencies to coordinate effective plans and support packages
- Support children and families through a strengths-based, relationship-focused approach
- Ensure children, young people, and families are actively involved in assessment, planning, and decision-making
- Maintain oversight of short breaks, Children in Need, Child Protection, and legal planning processes as appropriate
What We Offer
- The opportunity to be part of significant national reform and service development
- A supportive, experienced, and values-led workforce
- Practice underpinned by Systemic Practice and a commitment to learning and development
- Meaningful work that helps prevent escalation to higher-level services
- Flexible working arrangements where service needs allow
You will be joining an authority that is committed to delivering the best possible outcomes for children and families, recognising the importance of reflective practice, collaboration, and professional curiosity.
Reward and Support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
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- Salary between £54,143 - £56,293 per annum pro rata
- Retention payment of £2,000*
- Welcome payment of £4,500*
- 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)
- In-house Occupational Health service
- Employee discount scheme
- Employee networks including Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- Career development and qualification opportunities
- Access to our Academy
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
About You
We are looking for an experienced and motivated social worker who will:
- Be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England
- Have extensive experience of working with children and families in a statutory social work setting
- Be knowledgeable about legislation and guidance relating to disabled children and safeguarding
- Have experience of leading and developing social work practitioners and creating a positive learning culture
How to Apply
For an informal chat about this role, please contact:
- Stroud: Phoebe.Holland@gloucestershire.gov.uk
- Cheltenham: Manoj.Sebastian@gloucestershire.gov.uk
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:
If you would like to find out more about our Children's Services, please look at our: Children's Social Care Careers | Careers hub
To access the Job Profile, please follow the link below: Job Profile: Family Help Team Manager
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Additional Information:
- Applications from any Gloucester City Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at the shortlisting stage.
- The post is subject to DBS Check.
- 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.
Equality and Diversity
We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled, and talented; that represents the community it serves.
We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities, or disability.
We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. Please contact the recruitment team if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Further information on our commitment to Equality and Diversity can be found Here.
If you wish to apply for this position on a secondment basis, please obtain approval from your current line manager that you may be released on a secondment before submitting an application form.
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