Fostering Team Manager

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                            Fostering Team Manager
• Job Location:                     Shire Hall 
• Salary:                               £50,788 - £52,805 per annum 
• Hours per Week:               37 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                     21/04/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:   11244 
• This post is open to job share 

We are currently recruiting for a Team Manager to join our Kinship Assessment team on a permanent basis.

Reward and support 

For all your hard work, you will receive the following: 

• £50,788 - £52,805 per annum
• annual retention payment of £2,000 * 
• welcome payment of £5,000
• 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 (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 
• salary sacrifice green car scheme (T&Cs apply) 
• 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 

Right child, right support, right time, every time

We are 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. 

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.

Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:

‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of 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.

About the team 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic, supportive, friendly team currently based in the centre of Gloucester. The Kinship Assessment Team work together towards the common goal of ensuring children have safe, caring placements where permanency can be secured within children’s own extended families or with those known to them. 

About you 

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Team Manager or Deputy Team Manager who can help lead and shape the team and is ready to take the next step. 

You will need to be passionate about getting the best outcomes for children, be able to give attention to detail, to deal with competing demands and priorities and be able to influence others and embed good practice. 

Your role will involve allocating work, supervising and support staff as well as quality-assuring team members’ work and monitoring data.  

If, like us, you are committed to doing what is right for children and ideally have experience of supervising others, child protection and court skills, we would be pleased to hear from you. 

This is an excellent chance to learn and develop personally and professionally and to be involved with taking the service forward. 

As well as your experience you will need: 

• Social Work England registration 
• a recognised qualification in Social Work 
• a good knowledge of a range of legislative frameworks covering Fostering and Special Guardianship 
• to have passed your Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) 
• a full driving licence and willingness to drive. 
• DBS clearance 

How to apply  

For an informal discussion about the role or if you have any questions, please email Tammy.Wheatley@gloucestershire.gov.uk or alternatively please apply before the closing date. 

*Please note that our welcome payments and retention payments are subject to tax and national insurance deductions 

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Fostering Team Manager Role Profile

This Position is subject to a DBS check. 

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.