Team Manager - Children Disabilities Team

Dudley; Dudley; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Dudley Council is seeking an experienced Team Manager for the Children's Disabilities Team to lead high‑quality social care services, safeguarding children with disabilities and supporting families. The role focuses on strong leadership, decision‑making, restorative practice, and collaboration across SEND, health, and education to improve outcomes.

You will shape service development, manage resources, and promote independence pathways into adulthood, ensuring voices of children and families

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and inspirational Team Manager to lead our Children's disabilities team, driving high‑quality social care services that safeguard and support children with disabilities, young people and their families. You will provide strong leadership, oversee complex decision‑making, champion integrated working across SEND, health and education, and ensure excellent practice through effective supervision, performance oversight and restorative,child‑friendly approaches. This is a key role shaping service development, managing resources, promoting independence pathways into adulthood, and ensuring that the voices of children and families inform everything we do. If you are committed to delivering outstanding outcomes and bringing positive change for children with disabilities, we’d love to hear from you.

If you would like more information please contact:-

Children's Disabilities Team Service Manager - a [e-mail]

Interviews: TBC

So that we can demonstrate Dudley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates. Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application.

Online application forms will only be accepted for this vacancy, online facilities for jobs are available at public libraries within the Dudley Borough.

All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK.

Please note: Dudley MBC does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK.

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N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications

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Attached documents
Employee Benefits List.pdf
Team Manager CDT G13 - JD & PS.pdf