2 x Team Manager
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We have two exciting Team Manager opportunities available
Are you an experienced social work leader who is passionate about improving the lives of children in care, care leavers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children? This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team, shape high-quality practice and make a lasting difference to some of the most vulnerable children and young people in our communities.
As Team Manager within our Corporate Parenting Service, you will lead and support a team of Social Workers and Personal Advisors, ensuring children and young people receive the highest standard of care, support and intervention to help them achieve positive outcomes.
About the role
As a Team Manager, you will play a pivotal leadership role within Children's Social Care, providing direction, oversight and professional support to a team delivering statutory services to children in care, care leavers and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Reporting to a Service Manager, you will ensure effective safeguarding, high-quality social work practice and strong partnership working that puts children and young people at the centre of everything we do.
This is a rewarding and varied role where no two days are the same. You will have the opportunity to influence service development, drive continuous improvement and create a positive team culture that enables staff to thrive. Through effective leadership, supervision and performance management, you will help ensure children and young people achieve the best possible outcomes, while maintaining strong oversight of practice quality and service delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading, managing and supervising a team of Social Workers and Personal Advisors.
- Providing effective supervision, guidance and support to ensure high-quality practice.
- Maintaining oversight of casework, ensuring risks are identified, managed and mitigated appropriately.
- Supporting children and young people to improve their life chances, wellbeing and outcomes.
- Embedding service standards, policies and procedures across the team.
- Working collaboratively with internal colleagues and external partner agencies to deliver coordinated support.
- Driving performance, quality assurance and continuous improvement activity.
- Supporting the development of staff through coaching, mentoring and professional guidance.
- Contributing to service development, innovation and strategic priorities within Children's Services.
For a full list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description.
Any-Desk:
As an ‘any-desk’ worker, you’ll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements.
About you
We are looking for an inspiring and motivated leader who is passionate about achieving the best outcomes for children and young people. You will be a confident and experienced social work professional with the ability to lead through challenge, build strong relationships and support your team to deliver excellent practice. You will be committed to safeguarding, quality improvement and partnership working, with a genuine desire to help children and young people reach their full potential.
You will bring strong leadership skills, sound professional judgement and the ability to make evidence-informed decisions in complex situations. Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills are essential, alongside the ability to motivate others, manage performance and drive positive change.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Extensive experience within Children's Services, supported by expert professional knowledge.
- Significant experience of supervising and managing staff within a statutory children's social work environment.
- Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams and working effectively with partner agencies.
- Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, safeguarding responsibilities and emerging developments within Children's Social Care.
- Proven experience of managing performance, quality standards and service improvement.
- Excellent planning, workload management and organisational skills.
- The ability to coach, develop and motivate professionals to achieve high standards of practice.
- Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships.
- A recognised Social Work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- A full UK driving licence and the ability to travel as required.
If you are an ambitious and compassionate leader who shares our commitment to delivering outstanding services for children and young people, we would love to hear from you.
We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.
Other information
If you would like to find out more about the roles, please contact:
[email protected] for an informal discussion.
Closing date: 20th of November
Interview Date: 26th of November
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
Buckinghamshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
Our values
We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.
By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:
- a fair and inclusive culture
- the chance to really make a difference to those around you
- health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
- a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
- ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
- opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events
At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.
From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.
We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.
We recognise and reward you
Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements.
We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants and shops, a generous employer pension contribution in line with the Local Government Pension Scheme, discounts on gym memberships and more - https://jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/working-buckinghamshire-council/
Social Workers are also entitled to a generous enhanced reward package, as follows:
- Competitive salary with a market increment
- A ‘Golden Hello’ lump sum payment upon successful completion of probation
- Annual leave up to 30 days per year, as well as other types of leave and the opportunity to buy further leave
- Up to 15 days per year training, learning and development offer
- Free parking across all of our office sites
If you are interested in relocating to Buckinghamshire and working with us, relocation packages are also available.
