About the Team:
Our Family and Adolescent Team is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced leader who is passionate about working with adolescents facing risks outside of their homes, including exploitation, missing, peer and contextual risks.
If you are motivated by relationship‑based practice, contextual safeguarding and leading skilled practitioners to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you.
Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.
Our Offer to you includes:
1. Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
2. Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee.
3. A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
4. We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply
About the Role:
We are recruiting a Team Manager for our Family and Adolescent Team (South) on a permanent basis.
As Team Manager you will provide leadership, direction and oversight to a multi‑disciplinary team working with adolescents and families experiencing extra‑familial harm and complex contextual risks.
Key responsibilities include:
5. Providing strong, consistent leadership and management oversight to social workers and practitioners, ensuring high‑quality, child‑centred and relationship‑based practice
6. Driving a contextual safeguarding approach for adolescents experiencing exploitation, missing episodes, peer harm and risk beyond the family home
7. Ensuring robust supervision, performance management and professional development for staff
8. Leading effective multi‑agency working across Police, Health, Education and community partners
9. Supporting the implementation of the Families First model within a locality‑based framework
Click here to download our Why work for Us Brochure
Key Requirements:
10. A recognised Social Work qualification and Social Work England registration
11. Proven experience of managing or supervising social work staff
12. Experience of working with adolescents and complex safeguarding, including contextual and extra‑familial harm (or transferable leadership experience)
13. Ability to work flexibly across the locality, including travel within the county
14. Willingness to participate in occasional out‑of‑hours or weekend work, in line with service demands
Market Supplement:
Up to £60,583 per annum (Includes a £3,500 pro-rated annual market supplement which is subject to pension, tax and NI deductions Ts&Cs apply).
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below:
15. Social Work/Probation Qualified - HAY 10
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.
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.
This role requires employees to undergo Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV). This process ensures that individuals who are not police staff but have physical or remote access to police premises, information, intelligence, financial, or operational assets are assessed for their reliability and integrity. This assessment determines their suitability for clearance to work within police premises.
We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don't want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application
Closing Date: 3rd June 2026
Interview Date: 8th June 2026
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. Seemore