Specialist Team Manager

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Nuneaton is seeking a Specialist Qualified Team Manager to lead the Family Help Team. This full-time, permanent role involves providing management and oversight to Family Practitioners, and requires significant experience in children's social work. The ideal candidate will have excellent analytical and communication skills, with a degree in a relevant area. The position offers a supportive work environment and a range of benefits including agile working options.

Benefits

Generous annual leave including an additional day at Christmas

Agile working options

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Volunteering & Wellbeing Day

Qualifications

• In-depth experience in children's social work and experience of complex cases.
• Ability to make well-informed decisions.
• Capable of producing concise and effective reports.

Responsibilities

• Manage team workload and ensure timely support for families.
• Lead team meetings and make informed threshold decisions.
• Build strong community partnerships.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Relationship building

Education

Degree in relevant area

Job description

About the Role

We are recruiting for the role of a Team Manager within Nuneaton and Bedworth B Family Help on a full time / permanent basis.

The Family Help Team are based at The Hilary Road Centre, Hilary Road, Nuneaton, CV10 9AD

As a Specialist Qualified Team Manager, you will be based within the locality Family Help team, providing line management and reflective supervision to Family Practitioners and Family Support Workers at Child in Need and Targeted Early Support Thresholds.

About the Team

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service. Click here to find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

Key Responsibilities

• Team Managers all support manage the workload within the team, including allocations, reviewing interventions, duty and offering management oversight, to ensures families receive timely and robust support and intervention.
• Team Managers chair Team Meetings, Relational Multi Agency Discussions and complete 6 weekly Restorative Learning Audits. At all times making informed threshold decisions.
• Team Managers are expected to lead by example embedding a restorative and reflective approach and creating a psychologically safe environment.
• Encourage professionals to identify their own training needs and help aid their professional development.
• Actively lead to build strong community partnerships, leading to more successful joint working and in doing so gaining familiarity with families and patterns in the community, allowing us to spot emerging issues early.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

Specialist Team Manager

Key Requirements

Working hours – 37 hrs per week, with agile and flexible working options generally worked from 9am till 5.30 pm Monday – Thursday and 9am to 5pm on Fridays.

• Degree in relevant area
• In depth experience in children's social work and experience of complex cases
• Have excellent analytical skills with ability to make well informed decisions
• Can record and produce concise, effective, and accuratereports
• Have good communication skills with the ability to build relationships, engage with children and families

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make:

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Click here to view the benefits at Warwickshire County Council.

Additional Information:

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don\'t want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application

To discuss the role please contact Lakbir Tahir, [e-mail]

Closing Date: 6th October 2025

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact [e-mail] and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more