Team Manager – Young Adults Disability

Leicestershire County Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority is seeking a Team Manager for their Adult Social Care Young Adults Disability Team in the East Midlands. The role involves collaborating within a robust management structure and enhancing service delivery for young adults aged 16 and above. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in adult social care, strong management skills, and a commitment to developing effective team dynamics. This position offers a competitive salary within a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial knowledge of The Care Act 2014.
• Experience in prioritising competing service demands.
• Ability to develop trust and positive relationships within a team.

Responsibilities

• Improve outcomes for people by ensuring good service delivery.
• Provide support to team members and manage performance.
• Deliver reports to Strategic Service Managers.

Skills

Adult social care experience

People management

Performance management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Leicestershire
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary:£49,221 - £53,826 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date:30 January 2026

Interview Dates:09 -13 February 2026

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Permanent Team Manager post to work in the Adult Social Care Young Adults Disability (YAD) Team within the current management team. The successful applicant will work with our existing and established management structure within the YAD. There is a current full-time manager in post, and you would share the responsibility for overall management and service development and delivery. The ideal candidate for this role will have extensive knowledge of working in an Adult Social Care setting especially to support young people aged 16 plus as part of their preparation for adulthood.

The key duties

• To improve outcomes for people by ensuring that staff can provide good outcomes for people by implementing the departments operating model and ways of working to deliver social care
• To provide technical and professional support to team members.
• To improve ways of working for staff by supporting and implementing improved working between team, children's services and partner agencies with an MDT focus.
• To manage staffing budgets and staff performance using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity, capability and delivery.
• To ensure the effective management of team performance and resources.
• To provide performance and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and HOS

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent management experience
• Have substantial adult social care experience and knowledge of The Care Act 2014
• Significant experience in people and performance management
• Have experience in successfully prioritising between competing service demands
• Understand partnership pressures and interdependencies relative to service area
• Partnership/MDT working with representative citizens and carers to identify service and support solutions
• Be able to develop trust within the team and encourage team members to build positive, trusting relationships with each other, across departments and with customers, service users, partners and/or the community as appropriate

We'd also 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.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

Flexible Working

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.

Contacts

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Claire McWilliams - Head of Service - to contact me by email, please click here .

Anne Goodwin - Strategic Service Manager - to contact me by email, please click here .

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 'Apply Now'. 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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