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Team Manager Home Finding Hub
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Warwickshire County Council,
Help us find the right home for every child.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate Team Manager to join Warwickshire’s Home Finding Hub. This countywide service is the central point for identifying foster homes, residential homes and supported accommodation for children who cannot live with their birth parents, relatives or friends.
You will lead with calmness, focus and sound judgement in a fast-paced environment, guiding colleagues to identify homes that meet each child’s individual needs. Proactive planning and effective prioritisation will be central to your work, alongside a commitment to hearing children’s voices and achieving safe, stable and lasting outcomes.
About the role:
- Oversee Home Finding Hub duty on a rota with the other established Team Manager.
- Quality assure placement referrals, ensuring they are balanced, strengths-based and of a high standard.
- Provide clear oversight of same-day and complex home searches, including presenting outstanding searches at weekly meetings with senior leaders.
- Line manage and supervise two full-time Home Finding Hub Social Workers, three Family Support Workers and one Youth Worker within the Wraparound Support Service.
- Oversee focused interventions designed to stabilise children’s homes and reduce avoidable moves.
- Build strong working relationships with social workers, fostering colleagues, internal and external foster carers, residential and supported accommodation providers, and other partners.
- Work closely with the other Home Finding Hub Team Manager and the Service Manager to provide consistent leadership across the service.
- Maintain effective systems and processes while encouraging creativity, reflection and continuous improvement.
About you:
We are looking for an experienced social work manager who can combine strong operational oversight with compassionate, child-centred leadership. You will be confident making timely decisions, supporting colleagues under pressure and maintaining high standards across a busy countywide service.
- A recognised social work qualification and current registration with Social Work England.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience in children’s social care, including management or supervisory responsibility.
- Experience of working with children in care, placement finding, fostering, residential care or a closely related service.
- Strong safeguarding knowledge and the ability to analyse complex information, manage risk and make well-reasoned decisions.
- Effective people-management skills, with a commitment to reflective supervision, staff development and wellbeing.
- Excellent communication and partnership-working skills, including the confidence to challenge constructively and influence decisions.
- A calm organised and flexible approach, with the ability to prioritise competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
- A clear commitment to anti-discriminatory practice, children’s rights and ensuring that each child’s wishes, feelings, identity and desired outcomes shape decision-making.
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What we offer:
- You will join a knowledgeable and supportive service where children’s needs remain at the centre of every decision. The role offers the opportunity to influence practice, strengthen placement stability and contribute to the continuing development of Warwickshire’s home-finding arrangements.
- A supportive leadership team and established Team Manager colleague.
- Regular supervision, learning and professional development opportunities.
- The opportunity to shape service improvements and make a direct difference to children’s lives.
- Flexible and agile working arrangements, in line with service needs.
- Access to Warwickshire County Council’s employee benefits, pension and wellbeing support.
For full Job Description and Person Specification click link here
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
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Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information:
Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
To discuss the role please contact Tracy Avill, tracyavill@warwickshire.gov.uk
Closing Date: 3rd September 2026
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more here.
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