We are looking for an experienced and motivated Team Manager to join our well-established Children in Care Team. This opportunity has arisen as a result of an internal promotion, reflecting the strength of leadership development and progression within the service.
The team is stable, experienced, and committed to achieving positive outcomes for children and young people. Based in Ellesmere Port, you will provide leadership, guidance, and operational oversight to social workers supporting children and young people in care from birth to 17 years old. The team works with children subject to Care Orders and those who have achieved permanence through post-care proceedings arrangements, ensuring children and young people receive high-quality support, stability, and planning throughout their journey.
This is an excellent opportunity for a confident and experienced manager who can provide stability, maintain positive performance, and continue to build on the team's strong foundations. You will join a service committed to relationship-based practice, achieving permanence for children without delay, and ensuring children and young people are supported to reach their full potential.
This is a hybrid role, with the option of working from home and other locality offices. There is an expectation that office-based meetings, team meetings and other collaborative activities will be attended in person wherever applicable. The successful candidate will be expected to model visible leadership, maintain a strong team presence, and support effective relationship building with colleagues and partner agencies.
Organisation
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Job Category
Children and Young People Services
Grade
CWAC NJC - Grade 12
Salary Min
£54,992 per annum
Salary Max
£62,778 per annum
Employment Type
Permanent
Documents
- RARG 8566 G12 Team Manager JRP 1.pdf
(PDF, 396.1kb)
Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.
The vacancy is for a full-time, permanent Team Manager
Grade 12 SCP: 40 - 45 £54,992 - £62,778pa
The post requires a Social Work qualification, extensive knowledge of trauma informed practice, of legislation underpinning delivery of social care, and substantial post qualifying experience in a statutory setting.
The post holder will:
- require registration with Social Work England as a registered Social Worker.
- be able to work across the Cheshire West and Chester Borough and beyond.
- have significant management experience within Children's Social Care, a sound understanding of Children in Care and Care Leaver services, and a proven ability to lead teams to deliver excellent outcomes for children and young people. Experience of managing complex care planning, permanence planning, court-related transitions, and partnership working across a range of agencies will be essential.
As Team Manager, you will be responsible for providing strong operational leadership, driving high standards of social work practice, ensuring robust safeguarding arrangements, and maintaining effective partnership working across the wider children's workforce. You will oversee care planning, permanence planning, statutory visiting requirements, and preparation for adulthood, whilst supporting staff development and fostering a culture of high support and high challenge.
Our Children's Social Care workforce is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for children in our Authority by providing a consistent, high-quality service to children and families, together with the support from a stable leadership and management team. We are committed to a culture of shared learning and development in which everyone has a part to play to ensure that our services to children and families focusses on positive outcomes.
We have developed, and continue to embed, ‘Our Way of Working’ with our multi-agency partners to ensure improved collaboration and one common approach to our work with families using Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Practice. Managers and Social Workers are encouraged to work creatively in planning and decision-making with children and their families and our partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes and with a focus on prevention at every level.
Cheshire West and Chester will be committed to supporting your development. Staff report opportunities to progress into more senior positions in the organisation and develop their skills through moving around different service areas. Social Workers receive regular and reflective supervision, and they are supported to learn and develop their skills through a comprehensive learning and development programme.
Our commitment and investment in professional development means that most of our Senior Practice Leads, Senior Social Workers, Team Managers and some Senior Managers have progressed within our own organisation.
As a local authority, we have developed an inspirational social work offer to support and develop our valued workforce, including:
- High quality progression and developmental opportunities.
- Work-life balance, flexible and remote working arrangements available, including up to date IT equipment, and a smart mobile phone for all employees.
- High quality supervision.
- Strong reflective practice framework.
- Free parking at all our office locations.
- Pension scheme – our Local Government Pension Scheme is a career average pension scheme with employee contributions of between 5.5% and 8.5% and the employer contribution currently of 23.8%. the scheme includes ill health and death in service benefits after two years membership.
- Employee assistance programme – 24 hours, seven day a week lifestyle support for when you or your family need a listening ear from a qualified advisor on a wide range of personal or work issues.
- Competitive working rewards - we have a variety of schemes available to employees which include; additional annual leave, care and cycle purchase scheme, home and electronics purchase scheme in addition to discounts at a wide range of high street and online retailers.
As employers, we recognise that Cheshire West and Chester Council has a major role to play in improving the quality of life of its employees. We are committed to agile, flexible and mobile working and helping employees to maintain an effective balance between their work and home life.
We have a strong political and senior leadership team with a wealth of experience and knowledge about children’s outcomes across the borough of Cheshire West and Chester. Children’s Social Care and the wider partnership use this understanding well to target areas for continued improvement.
If you have any queries about this vacancy, please don't hesitate to contact me on:
[email protected]
Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk
No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!
Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information.
Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £13.45 per hour for all contracted hours.
For any technical enquiries please email [email protected] and quote job reference number in all correspondence.
