Family Help Team Manager

Gloucestershire County Council; Stroud, Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount scheme

LGPS

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Job summary

Gloucester City Council is seeking an experienced Family Help Team Manager to lead a team of social workers and practitioners delivering services to disabled children with complex needs, across Stroud and Cheltenham.

You will work with health, education and partner agencies to safeguard children and ensure high-quality practice, while promoting a strengths-based, family-centered approach to achieve the best outcomes.

Qualifications

• Qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience leading and developing social work practitioners.
• Experience of working with children and families in statutory social work.
• Knowledge of legislation relating to disabled children and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team delivering services to disabled children with complex needs.
• Provide safeguarding and statutory interventions where required.
• Coordinate plans with health, education and partner agencies.
• Engage children and families in assessment, planning and decision-making.
• Oversee short breaks, Children in Need and legal planning processes.

Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding

Partnership working

Education

Qualified social worker (SWE registered)

Job description

• employee discount scheme

This is a Gloucester City Council job.

• Job Title: Family Help Team Manager
• Job Location: Stroud and Cheltenham
• Salary: £54,143- £56,293 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent & FTC
• Closing Date: 28/10/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 15002
• This post is open to job share

Make a real difference to children and families

Education

Following significant investment in Gloucestershire Children's Services and the implementation of the Department for Education's Families First Partnership Programme reforms, we are looking for an experienced and inspirational Family Help Team Managers to join:

Stroud- permanent

Cheltenham- 1 year FTC

About The Role

As Team Manager, you will provide strong leadership and oversight to a team of social workers and alternatively qualified practitioners delivering services to disabled children with complex needs. You will play a key role in ensuring high-quality practice, safeguarding children and young people, and working collaboratively with families, education, health and partner agencies to achieve the best possible outcomes.

You will

• lead and manage the team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services for children and families
• provide management oversight for children, including safeguarding and statutory interventions where required
• work closely with health, education and partner agencies to coordinate effective plans and support packages
• support children and families through a strengths-based, relationship-focused approach
• ensure children, young people and families are actively involved in assessment, planning and decision-making
• maintain oversight of short breaks, Children in Need, Child Protection and legal planning processes as appropriate

What We Offer

• the opportunity to be part of significant national reform and service development
• a supportive, experienced and values-led workforce
• practice underpinned by Systemic Practice and a commitment to learning and development
• meaningful work that helps prevent escalation to higher-level services
• flexible working arrangements where service needs allow

You will be joining an authority that is committed to delivering the best possible outcomes for children and families, recognising the importance of reflective practice, collaboration, and professional curiosity.

Reward and support

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

• between £54,143- £56,293 per annum pro rata
• retention payment of £2,000*
• welcome payment of £4,500*
• 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
• 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)
• in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• employee networks including Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Academy
• cycle to Work Scheme
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’ This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive. 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. 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 You

We are looking for an experienced and motivated social worker who will:

• be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.
• have extensive experience of working with children and families in a statutory social work setting
• be knowledgeable about legislation and guidance relating to disabled children and safeguarding
• have experience of leading and developing social work practitioners and creating a positive learning culture

Interviews are due to take place in person on: 5th November 2026

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• Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions. The payments are non-contractual and are pro-rata for part-time staff.
• Please note that our relocation policy is subject to terms and conditions.

Additional Information

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

Job Profile: Family Help Team Manager

Applications from any Gloucester City Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.

The post is subject to DBS Check

Gloucester City 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.

Equality and Diversity

We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability.

We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment to those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantages because of their disability. Please contact the recruitment team if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process [e-mail]

Further information on our commitment to Equality and Diversity can be found Here

If you wish to apply for this position on a secondment basis, please obtain approval from your current line manager that you may be released on a secondment before submitting an application form.

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.