Family Help Team Manager Protection

Norfolk County Council; Dereham; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous holiday entitlement

Health & Wellbeing services (physi01)

Job summary

Norfolk County Council is seeking a Team Manager for Family Help, Care & Protection in Dereham. You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring high-quality safeguarding practice and timely interventions for children and families.

Qualified Social Worker with registration in Social Work England, and robust experience in child protection, assessments and court work, are essential. Strong leadership and budgeting skills are required to drive service improvement.

Qualifications

• This role requires a qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience in child protection, assessments and court work is essential.
• Strong people management, recruitment, and budget skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Family Help teams to secure the best outcomes for children and families.
• Oversee assessments, safeguarding plans and court processes with the team.
• Support recruitment, mentoring and performance development across the service.

Skills

Social work leadership

Team management

Child Protection

Court Work

Recruitment

Budget management

Mentoring

Education

Qualified Social Worker (Social Work England)

Job description

Job Description

Team Manager - Family Help, Care & Protection | 11443 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £51,821 to £56,068 per annum | Grade L | Dereham

Hi, I am Jenifer Dewar, Assistant Director for Family Help at Norfolk County Council. Norfolk are a 'Good' authority with 'exceptional leadership'. We are proud of our Social Work Teams and value all our practitioners.

This is an exciting time to join our Management Team at Norfolk following the launch of our brand-new operating model. Family Help mirrors some of the ambitions laid out in the National Children's Social Care Review (2022) and the Government's response to that, Stable Homes Built on Love (2023), it further amplifies and enhances elements we know have worked for our children, families and practitioners in Norfolk for some time.

We are looking for a Team Manager who is a qualified Social Worker and registered with Social Work England. You will need experience in Child Protection, Assessments and Court Work, be an excellent team player and share our vision to provide the best possible outcomes for children and families alongside excellent people management skills, knowledge of recruitment, budget management and mentoring skills.

Family Help consists of multi-disciplinary teams working collaboratively to meet the needs of children, and in a culture that prioritises relationships, direct work and extended family networking to affect sustainable change. Our family help teams have 22 practitioners, of which seven or eight are Social Workers. The rest of the team is made up of family support workers, specialist practitioners, assistant managers and team managers. Cases are managed by the whole prevention and protection teams and families receive targeted interventions at a very early stage, improving outcomes for our Children and Families. We have received amazing benefits from this way of working for our Social Workers too including the reduction in intervention times and paperwork.

You will be joining an authority who cares about your wellbeing, who are passionate about flexible working and who develop practitioners, so everyone feels valued and part our Norfolk County Council family.

We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups at Norfolk County Council including Black and Global Majority practitioners, and we are committed to equality and diversity within our Family Help teams.

We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependant on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Redeployment closing date: 12 October 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 20 October 2026 at 23:55