Children and Families Team Manager Job Location: Gloucester Salary; £52,413 - £54,495 per annum Hours per Week: 37 Contract Type: Permanent Job Requisition Number: 9623 Open to job share or part-time hours We are currently recruiting for a permanent Team Manager to join our Forest of Dean and Cotswolds Children and Families teams. About us For all your hard work you will receive the following; between £52,413 - £54,495 per annum subject to experience annual retention payment of £3,000* welcome payment of £5,000* relocation package of up to £8,000* flexible and agile working opportunities 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff) 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) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone. an in-house Occupational Health service employee discount scheme cycle to Work scheme links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT) and the Young Employees Network career development and qualification opportunities access to our Social Work Academy paid SWE registration renewal Our vision Right child, right support, right time, every time Working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help. We have ambitious improvement and transformation plans to create the optimum conditions within which our staff can make a real difference and improve outcomes for children. We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to join an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC. Our team structures are designed to ensure there is the right level of support available to staff and that caseloads are kept at a manageable level with a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, 4 Social Workers and an ASYE making up each team’s full complement of staff. We need resilient, driven individuals who will play their part in making our vision for Children’s Services a success. You will be joining an authority with a strong set of values that underpin the work we do: Accountability, Empowerment, Excellence, Integrity and Respect. About you As a Team Manager, we’ll ask you to lead and support a team of social workers to deliver services of the highest quality. Ensuring statutory duties and best practice is followed, you’ll develop a team plan in line with Children’s Services strategic objectives and provide management oversight on all cases with a clear understanding of risk. Your role will focus on managing the team’s workflow and quality assuring work through observations, reflective supervision and GCC’s quality assurance framework, as well as contributing towards the development of the framework itself. Through building positive relationships with colleagues within both the service and partner agencies, you will ensure we are able to provide support and protection for vulnerable children and young people across the County. As well as your experience as a frontline social worker, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post: Social Work England/ Wales registration a recognised qualification in Social Work to have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012) a full driving licence and willingness to drive DBS clearance How to apply For an informal chat about this role, please email CSWRecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk with your name, number and what you wish to discuss and a member of the team will give you a call within 48 hours. To ensure a personalised and responsive recruitment experience, all applicants will receive a call from the recruitment team to discuss this role, where you would like to practice and in what area, and to book you in for an interview. *Please note, all our retention payments are non-contractual, pro rata for part-time staff and subject to National Insurance and tax deductions. Our relocation package is subject to terms and conditions. We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications. The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks