Team Leader

Leicestershire County Council; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council organization is looking for a dedicated professional to manage a team focused on supporting children and families in the Charnwood area. The role is hybrid, offering options for both office and home working. You will lead Keyworkers and Family Support Workers in providing targeted early help and managing sensitive cases. Applicants should have significant experience in children and family services, a strong ability to build relationships, and a commitment to equality and diversity. Flexible working arrangements can be discussed.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Inclusive work culture

Qualifications

• Must have experience within a multi-agency environment.
• Capable of supporting staff to improve outcomes for children.
• Understanding of sensitive/confidential information handling.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Keyworkers and Family Support Workers.
• Support targeted early help cases and children in need.
• Provide oversight for group work and duty cover.

Skills

Significant experience in children and family services

Experience in team support and management oversight

Knowledge of child development

Ability to build relationships across stakeholders

Knowledge of relevant theoretical approaches

Commitment to equality and inclusion

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Loughborough Children & Family Wellbeing Centre, Loughborough, LE11 5BN

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Grade 12 – £43,860 - £47,829 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Working Hours: Various – full and part time

Contract Type: Various – permanent and fixed term

Closing Date: 4th January 2026

Interview Date(s): 12th & 16th January 2026

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team!

We work across the Charnwood area and work alongside other agencies such as health, schools, social care and community organisations to support children and their families. We support families by doing one to one work in the home or running drop-in sessions or groups within our Family Hubs.

Come and join our team and help improve outcomes for our Children and their Families…

This role will manage a team of Keyworkers and Family Support Workers working both on Targeted Early Help cases and Children in Need as well as having some oversight of group work and duty cover.

Please note that there are 3 roles available – please indicate your preference in your application:

1. 1 x 37 hours per week, Permanent
2. 1 x 37 hours per week, Fixed term / Secondment until 31st July 2026
3. 1 x 30 hours per week, Permanent

An enhanced with barred list DBS check is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post, you must have:

• Significant experience of working within children and family services in a multi-agency environment
• Experience of supporting staff and teams to maintain, develop and improve outcomes for children, young people, and families, ideally including case supervision and management oversight
• Experience of working within an outcomes driven framework and working in an environment dealing with sensitive and confidential information
• Knowledge of the triggers and barriers faced by children and young people and methods of identifying and engaging early, those vulnerable to poor outcomes and Knowledge of child development and the needs of children and young people
• Demonstrate the ability to build powerful relationships across stakeholders, peers and partners creating open and transparent relationships based on trust and demonstrate the ability to lead and deliver sustainable, collective high performance, through inspirational leadership of people, setting clear priorities, and a strong approach
• Knowledge of relevant theoretical, practical, and procedural approaches that help improve the lives of children and young people, and demonstrate an improvement in their outcomes
• Demonstrate the need for voices of children, young people, and their families to be heard and ensure this is used to help to shape service delivery and outcome planning for children and families.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus; communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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