Team Manager - Care Leavers Team

South Gloucestershire Council; Yate; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

South Gloucestershire Council seeks a capable Team Manager in the Corporate Parenting Service to lead a team of Personal Advisors (PAs) supporting care leavers aged 18–25. You will provide professional oversight, recognition, and guidance, ensuring a strong corporate parenting approach and collaboration with social workers for effective transitions.

You will drive best outcomes by promoting accommodation access, local offers, and employment/educational opportunities while safeguarding and

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in social work (MA/BA) and current registration with Social Work England.
• Experience leading staff and supervising professionals in a care setting.
• Strong commitment to outcomes for care experienced young people.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of six Personal Advisors supporting care leavers aged 18–25.
• Collaborate with social workers to support transitions for children in care (16–18).
• Ensure continuity of high-quality support, wellbeing, safeguarding, and accommodation pathways.

Skills

Staff management

Leadership

Supervision

Social care knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Social Work

DipSW

Job description

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Team Manager in one of our care leavers teams, you will provide support, recognition, guidance, and professional oversight to a team of personal advisors (PA's). We are looking for a talented and ambitious leader to join our strong management group within our wider Corporate Parenting Service to lead one of our care leaver teams.

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Team Manager in one of our care leavers teams, you will provide support, recognition, guidance, and professional oversight to a team of personal advisors (PA's). We are looking for a talented and ambitious leader to join our strong management group within our wider Corporate Parenting Service to lead one of our care leaver 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

You will be managing a team of six PA's who work as lead professionals with our care leavers (aged 18-25) as well as working alongside social workers in supporting effective transitions for our children in care (aged 16-18). Working with your PA's, you will deliver the best possible service to our care experienced young people as their corporate parent. This will include:

• Supporting them into appropriate accommodation
• Promoting support and opportunities available via our local offer
• Enabling them to access and maintain employment, education and training (EET) opportunities
• Ensuring their ongoing wellbeing and where appropriate taking appropriate safeguarding actions to ensure their safety

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.

• First and foremost, as a supportive manager you will be able to get the best from your team members whilst ensuring they are fully supported and know how valued they are.
• You will lead and oversee a consistently good service to care experienced young people. It will be your responsibility to ensure specialist assessment and support is undertaken and delivered effectively, improving the outcomes and promoting a positive future for our children in care and care leavers.
• It will be key for you to maintain a priority in promoting personal and professional development through the several available pathways and programmes offered by our Children's Services to you staff.

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. And 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 will be passionate about the role of the local authority as a Corporate Parent and on promoting the best possible outcomes for care experienced young people.
• An in depth and comprehensive understanding of children in care, foster carers and their families is essential for this role.
• 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 current driving licence and provide a car or have access to appropriate means of travel.
• Business Insurance will need to be added to your current car insurance policy.

Interviews will take place on Friday 2nd 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!