Deputy Team Manager - 15+ Team

BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL; Bridgend; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority is seeking a Deputy Team Manager for the 15+ Team, working with care experienced children aged 15 to 25. This role emphasizes high quality supervision and career development, with training provided. The council adopts a hybrid working model, ensuring a rewarding environment where staff feel valued. A DBS check and Welsh language skills are necessary for this position.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Training provided

Hybrid working policy

Qualifications

• Ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
• Enhanced with Children's Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is required.

Responsibilities

• Join the management team within the 15+ Team focused on care experienced children.
• Ensure high quality supervision and improve outcomes for children and families.
• Implement the signs of safety approach in practice.

Job description

Overview

Deputy Team Manager - 15+ Team. 37 hours per week.

Are you passionate about improving the lives of children and young people? Do you want to work for an employer who places major importance on high quality supervision, wellbeing and career development?

Bridgend County Borough Council offer great opportunities to further your social work career.

We are currently recruiting for a deputy team manager. The deputy team manager would join the management team within the 15+ Team that includes a team manager and one senior practitioner. The team works with care experienced children between the ages on 15 and 25.

The local authority has recently launched the signs of safety approach which will underpin all of our practice in Bridgend County Borough. All new staff will be provided with a suite of training that will support them to develop their practice in line with the principles of the model and strength developed practice.

We are a reflective organisation that continuously builds on its strengths and is committed to the principle that the most effective way of improving outcomes for all children, young people and families is through the provision of accessible, universal services.

Working in a rewarding and educational environment where staff feel valued is what you can expect with Bridgend County Borough Council as your employer.

For further information on working as a supervised contact worker in Bridgend, please contact Stuart Osborne at [e-mail].

The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

An Enhanced with Childrens Barred list criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.

The council's Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.

Closing Date: 24 September 2025

Shortlisting Date: 26 September 2025

Interview Date: 06 October 2025

Documents

• Benefits to working at Bridgend County Borough Council
• Job Description & Person Specification