Deputy Team Manager

We are currently recruiting for 2 Deputy Team Managers to join our Edge of Care team on a permanent basis.

Reward and Support

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

- between £39,186 - £44,428 per annum subject to experience
- 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
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
- access to our Social Work Academy

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 toimproved 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. We take a relational approach to working with families and focus on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive.

About Us

The Edge of Care Team is made up of 1 Team Manager, 2 Deputy Team Managers and 24 family Support Workers. The team works in partnership with children and their families or carers to provide services aiming to promote positive change, the resilience of children and the stability of their placements (at home or in accommodation) through task focussed time limited interventions and packages of direct work. The team also work to reunify children back home from care settings and to enable children to step down from residential care to foster care and offer preventative support where a current assessment indicates family breakdown.

The Out of Hours Response Service (ORS) contributes to the Department’s emergency provision on a countywide basis. We ensure identified staff members are available, on a rota basis, to respond within one hour of a request for a service.

About You

The Deputy Team Manager role is, among other things, needed to ensure the continuous professional development of the team through professional support and guidance. You will assist in enabling field working teams to access appropriate services and assist in promoting inter-agency and multi-disciplinary work. Your role as a DTM will require the ability to work outside normal office hours as part of the standard working week.

There are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

- DipSW, CSS, CQSW or NVQ Level 3/ 4 in Care or equivalent
- a full driving licence and willingness to drive
- DBS clearance
- experience and understanding of working with children, young people and their families in the community
- experience of working successfully with other sections and agencies
- a minimum of 3 years working in child care

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact Alistair Elliott on Alistair.ELLIOTT@gloucestershire.gov.uk or call 07827 159110

Interviews for these vacancies will be held on the 3rd & 4th of October 2024.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications.