South Gloucestershire Council
Team Manager Corporate Parenting (Early Permanence/Adoption, Children in Care, Care Leavers)
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At South Gloucestershire Council, we are immensely proud of the skills, abilities, and compassion demonstrated by our social workers and wider workforce. As Team Manager, you will play a key leadership role, providing support, recognition, professional guidance and oversight to colleagues within your practice area, helping them to deliver positive outcomes for children and young people.
Joining the management group within our Corporate Parenting Service, this is a unique role in which you will manage our Early Permanence/Adoption Pod, which includes oversight of some Children in Care, while also managing Personal Advisors within our Care Leavers teams.
Whether you are an existing Team Manager looking to develop your experience within a different practice area, or an experienced practitioner with supervisory responsibilities seeking your first management role, this is an exciting opportunity to further develop your leadership career. While knowledge and experience of adoption policy and processes and practice in respect of care leavers is desirable, we are particularly interested in individuals who can demonstrate a commitment to learning, a willingness to embrace new challenges and the ability to adapt to the evolving needs of the service.
What You Will Be Doing
- You will have the usual targets to achieve, but you will also be supported by an experienced leadership team that are always accessible from the very top down.
- A key aspect of your role will be demonstrating strong and effective leadership, where you will motivate and develop colleagues while supporting the ongoing improvement of services.
- You will help us achieve our ambition of being the very best Corporate Parent for our children in care and care leavers.
- As a people-focused manager, you will provide high-quality supervision, support and professional challenge, ensuring team members feel valued and equipped to deliver excellent practice.
- It will be your responsibility to lead and oversee the delivery of a consistently high-quality service, in respect of children who have a plan for adoption, children in care and care leavers.
- This diverse role will involve supporting children and young people at different stages of their journey, from babies and young children through to care-experienced young people aged 18-25.
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What We Need From You
- We require you to hold relevant professional qualifications and have experience within a relevant setting, such as corporate parenting or social care that must include experience managing staff and providing professional supervision.
- It is essential that you can evidence a commitment to ongoing professional development and a thorough knowledge of current legislation and practice relating to children and young people's services.
- You will have sound knowledge and practical experience of social work practice relating to early permanence and adoption.
- We are looking for a flexible, organised and responsive leader who is comfortable working across a diverse service area.
- Ideally, you will be able to evidence your ability to lead teams to achieve optimum performance in delivering excellent social care services for children.
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.
Interviews will be held on Monday 17th August 2026.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We invest in the careers of our people and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos. We are a relatively small local authority, so managers know staff well. They can plan their services to ensure teams have manageable caseloads and have effective supervision so feel supported to make decisions which are right for the children and young people they work with.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
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“Staff are overwhelmingly positive about working for South Gloucestershire Council. Staff report feeling heard and responded to by senior leaders. Reduced workloads, increased stability of managers and more business support have strengthened their ability to respond to and improve the quality of practice for children. A wealth of concentrated training, including the Programme for Change initiative, has developed skill sets and expertise of staff. Staff benefit from a clear pathway of career progression, including a bespoke managers development programme.” [Ofsted Report published July 2024]
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Team Manager, Children's Social Care - Job Description
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