Team Manager - 0-18 Children with Disabilities

South Gloucestershire Council; Yate; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Wellbeing support

Staff discounts

Job summary

South Gloucestershire Council is seeking an experienced Team Manager to lead one of two 0-18 Children with Disabilities teams within the 0-25 Disabilities Service. You will provide essential support, professional oversight, and safeguarding-focused leadership to a dedicated social care team.

The role requires social work registration, and a track record of managing staff, developing teams, and delivering excellent outcomes for children and families. Interviews on 8 Oct 2026.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in social work (MA/BA or DipSW) with current Social Work England registration.
• Extensive knowledge in relevant settings such as corporate parenting or social care.
• Experience in managing staff and supervising other professionals.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams to meet changing service demands.
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and current legislation/practice for children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Support social workers to build relationships, undertake assessments, develop plans and deliver evidence-based interventions for children in need of support, protection and care.
• Combine hybrid remote and office-based management with essential face-to-face guidance to meet service objectives.
• Promote development pathways and CPD for team members within Children’s Services.
• Provide supervision and strategic direction with support from senior leadership.

Skills

Staff management

Team leadership

Social work knowledge

Continued professional development

Legislation knowledge

Education

MA/BA in social work or DipSW

Social Work England registration

Job description

How you'll make a difference

At South Gloucestershire Council we are immensely proud of the skills, abilities, and compassion of all our social workers and wider team members. As a Team Manager, you will provide essential support, recognition, guidance, and professional oversight to team members.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, strong, and committed leader to join our management group within our 0-25 Disabilities Service, leading one of two 0-18 Children with Disabilities teams.

We are pleased to say that we provide an Ofsted rated 'Good' service, our Ofsted report can be viewed here; we are seeking additional driven professionals to help us to collectively maintain and build on this for the ongoing betterment of the children and young people of South Gloucestershire.

What you will be doing

While you will have the usual targets to achieve, you will be doing so with a very supportive leadership team around you that are always accessible from the very top down.

If you can focus on the people behind the social worker title - we know you will achieve the best for our children and families.

• It will be your responsibility to support our social workers to build relationships, undertake assessments, develop plans and deliver purposeful evidence-based interventions to secure the best outcomes for children in need of support, protection and care.
• Being an adaptive and responsive manager, you will combine a hybrid model of remote and office-based working with face-to-face management (where essential and secure) to meet team and wider service objectives.
• Maintaining a focus on the individuals in your team, you will promote personal and professional development through the pathways and programmes offered by our Children's Services.
• You will have the support, guidance and supervision of an experienced and accessible Senior Leadership team.

What we need from you

• We require you to hold a professional qualification eg. MA or BA in social work, DipSW and have a current registration with Social Work England.
• You need to have an extensive knowledge in a relevant setting such as corporate parenting or social care. This must include experience of managing staff and supervision of other professionals.
• You must have experience of developing and motivating a team to fulfil the changing demands of the service.
• Given the elements of the role, you will be able to evidence your ability to lead teams to achieve optimum performance in delivering excellent social care services for children.
• You will have evidence of on-going continuous professional development and a thorough knowledge of current legislation and practice relating to children and young people's services.

What you need to know

• Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (child and adult) is obtained for this post.
• You will be required to travel widely within the authority so you must either have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
• Business Insurance will need to be added to your current car insurance policy.

Interviews are anticipated to take place on 8th October 2026.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different

We are proud to say that we provide an Ofsted rated 'Good' service. We are seeking additional driven professionals to help us to collectively maintain and build on this for the ongoing betterment of the children and young people of South Gloucestershire.

• We invest in the careers of our people and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We're making a difference, be part of it!