Team Manager- Family Help

Golearnleicestershire; Wigston; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Hybrid working

Job summary

Leicestershire County Council in Wigston is seeking a Social Work Team Manager with extensive safeguarding and Child in Need experience. You will lead a team of professionals to manage cases, allocate workloads, and develop services that keep children safe while coordinating with a locality management team.

The role requires a Social Work degree or equivalent, supervisory experience, and a valid UK driving licence. A flexible and inclusive approach is expected in delivery of services.

Qualifications

• Social Work degree or equivalent and continuing professional development.
• Experience of statutory childcare social work, including Child in Need, safeguarding, child protection and care proceedings.
• Experience supervising staff and/or social work students; management experience.
• Excellent safeguarding knowledge and best practice in service delivery.
• Ability to analyse information, make decisions under pressure, and report to the Service Manager.
• Must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team including Senior Practitioner, Social Workers and Oversight Practitioner.
• Allocate and prioritise workloads; ensure high levels of protection for children.
• Develop the team and translate organisational priorities into practice.
• Represent the team's experiences and challenges to the wider service.
• Promote open communication and collaboration within the locality team.

Skills

Team leadership

Child safeguarding

Decision making

Performance monitoring

Communication

Driving licence

Education

Social Work degree or equivalent (CQSW, DipSW)

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Wigston, Bassett Street, LE18 4PE and Family Hubs

Salary: £53,847 - £58,602 (inclusive of market premia at £3,000) per annum (pro rata for part-time)|

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 8th November 2026

Interview Date(s): 19th November 2026

We are currently seeking a dynamic Social Work Team Manager who has extensive safeguarding and Child in Need experience to come and work in the locality team in Wigston.

About the Role

We are introducing Families First Partnership Plus in Leicestershire, strengthening how we work with children and families by bringing together the strengths of family, community and professional networks to create lasting change. Using the Signs of Safety approach, you will support your team to work collaboratively with these networks, understand what is working well and what needs to change, and develop clear plans that safely manage risk. Throughout this work, childrens’ lived experiences, wishes and needs must remain at the heart of our decisions and everything we do.

This is a new way of working. Rather than operating in silos or through separate services, we are developing a place-based team approach that works with children and families across the continuum, from Targeted Early Help through to care proceedings and court. By working together around families, we will seek to prevent needs from escalating and reduce unnecessary handovers, providing greater consistency and continuity while keeping children and young people at the heart of everything we do.

You will provide leadership to your team, who will consist of a Senior Practitioner, Social Workers, and a Senior Social Work Oversight Practitioner who provides Social Work oversight to Keyworker-led Child in Need plans.

You will be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads effectively and working with an integrated locality management team to ensure that we are providing high levels of support and protection to children. Your role is also to develop and support your team to provide an effective, efficient and consistently high-quality service. As a key bridge between the team and the wider organisation, you will ensure that organisational priorities, decisions and expectations are clearly understood and translated into practice, while representing the team’s experiences, achievements and challenges within the wider service. You will promote open communication, collaboration and shared learning, helping colleagues to feel connected to the organisation and supported through change.

The right candidate will have responsibility for the whole team, you will be covering duty and assessment work on a rota with the other locality managers and will be expected to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved.

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 respond to and evidence the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1,000 words.

• Social Work degree or equivalent, e.g. CQSW, DipSW (with specialism in children’s services), approved by Social Work England and evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of statutory childcare social work, including Child in Need, safeguarding, child protection and care proceedings.
• Experience of supervising staff and/or social work students. Management experience.
• Excellent safeguarding knowledge and best practice in the delivery of quality services.
• Experience of using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
• Ability to analyse information to reach sound decisions, often under pressure, and take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Service Manager.
• You MUST hold a full, valid, UK driving licence (or be able to convert your current licence) and have access to a vehicle.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion,please contact:

Jane Clamp - Service manager

Email: [e-mail]