Children's Disability Service Team Manager

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Newcastle-under-Lyme; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a permanent Team Manager in the Children’s Disability Team has arisen at Staffordshire County Council. This role involves leading a team to support children with complex disabilities, ensuring effective safeguarding and service improvements. Flexible and hybrid working options are available, along with a commitment to professional development and employee well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Experience of working at a senior level within a local authority.
• Knowledge of Disability and related systems.
• Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of practitioners managing day-to-day practices and allocations.
• Delivering statutory responsibilities for children’s safeguarding.
• Embedding service improvements through audits and quality assurance.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Social Care Knowledge

Stakeholder Management

Legislative Knowledge

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the permanent role of Team Manager in the Children’s Disability Team. This post is based in Newcastle, covering the Newcastle and Moorlands Districts.

There are four Children’s Disability teams across the County, and they provide specialist services for children and young people with complex disabilities.These are small teams of highly dedicated Social Workers that support children and families to reach the best outcomes in a timely manner, enabling them to live their lives to the full. We also are supported by a team of skilled Family Practitioners who assist in facilitating behaviour management work and undertaking direct workFlexible working is an option and also hybrid working is in place.
Main Responsibilities
You will be:leading a team of practitioners and manage the day to day practice and the safe allocation of work.leading on the delivery of the statutory responsibilities relating to children’s safeguarding under the relevant legislation.providing the highest level of professional leadership, motivation and direction to a teamensuring that effective professional practice and supervision is delivered throughout the teamidentifying and embed service improvements through audits, quality assurance, identifying training, benchmarking and the interpretation and dissemination of legislationparticipatingand work in partnership through relevant boards, e.g. LSCB, Children’s continuing care, partnership committees, locality arrangements and other meetings as necessarymaintaining, developing and contributing to internal, local, regional, national and multi-agency partnerships to influence, support and maintain best practiceThe Ideal Candidate
You will have:experience of working at a senior level within a local authority ·Knowledge of Disability and systems that impact on this.knowledge of managing social workers and others within a single or multi-professional team ·experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in a partnership environment · Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation in relation to the children’s’ social care system ·experience in managing budgets effectively ·proven ability to quickly build and manage strong credible stakeholder relationshipsexcellent supervision skills and an ability to enable practitioners to utilise reflective practicean ability to deal with a range of issues and conflicting demands and deadlinesproven ability to influence decision makers ·ability to work collaboratively with teams and partners.Interviews will be held during the week starting 21st July 2025Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Mel Rushton, Disability Lead at: [e-mail] or Tracey Challinor, District lead at: [e-mail] Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:Our Values:The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.Our benefits:We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access toOur rewards and benefits - Careers at StaffordshireOur recruitment process:As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communitiesAs part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a GoldAward Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as yourapplication meets the minimum criteria for the post.As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.