Date: 22 Jul 2026
Job Location:
Gloucester
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This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
Job Title: Deputy Social Care Manager
Job Location: Shire Hall
Salary: £52,413 - £54,495 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 05/08/2026
Job Requisition Number: 14583
This post is not open to job share
Are you looking for your next step in your Social Work management career?
Adult Social Care has an exciting opportunity for a full time (37 hours) Deputy Social Care Manager position within our Learning Disabilities Team. This role is a combination of frontline and strategic level management.
About the Role:
Under the direction of the Head of Learning Disability Services, the Deputy Social Care Manager (DSCM) is responsible for ensuring the team’s social work practice and values, to deliver positive outcomes. The DSCM will achieve this through ensuring team arrangements are in place for supervision, workload management, quality assurance and the effective deployment of the budget, staff and additional resources.
This is an interesting and varied role within an established and supportive team that are motivated, passionate and engaged. There is a full complement of management in the team which consists of a Head of Learning Disability Services, a Deputy Social Care Manager, Social Work Leads and a Social Care Lead. Other team members include qualified Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, Adult Social Care Practitioners and an administration team.
Being part of this service means that you have a supportive established network of peers that encourages regular communication and a platform for collaborative solutions, with opportunities to develop further excellent working relationships with professionals from across the council and other agencies. See how Gloucestershire Adult Social Care’s #Makethedifference approach is transforming lives and reinvigorating social work in the county by reading our Community Care Editorial.
The position is based in Shire Hall, Gloucester. We offer flexible working with a mix of office and home working. To find out more about working in Learning Development team, visit our “Meet the Teams” webpage.
About You:
We are looking for an individual who has experience in line management within a multi-disciplinary environment. The ideal candidate will have:
Substantial experience of working with vulnerable adults or evidence of transferable experience in a statutory health or adult social care setting
Effective leadership, providing support and modelling engagement in the most challenging of circumstances, including with partner agencies, stakeholders and other professionals
Experience in undertaking line management duties, including appraisal and formal performance management of staff
Experience of financial decision making in the context of managing allocated team budgets
Significant up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and procedures
Providing inspirational and credible leadership, building and owning strong relationships politically, externally and internally, are all important qualities for this role.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website.
If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.
We Offer:
Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that’s exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:
25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
Free parking at our office in Cheltenham
Agile working with a mix of office and home working
Regular formal and informal support
Safe, supportive and positive working environment
Robust supervision and training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills. Including personal licences to Adults CCINFORM, access to mandatory training and additional topical bi-annual workshops
Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
Cycle to Work scheme
Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network
We’re Closer Than You Think:
We are an easy commute from many locations, view our commuting times map to see what we mean.
Applying:
Please write your application with consideration for the essential criteria in the Job Profile (see link below). Your application should include examples of why you should be considered and cover the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the post.
To arrange an informal discussion with the Team Manager, please email
[email protected].
Or click 'Apply'
Additional Information:
Deputy Social Care Manager Job Profile
This Position is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received and / or due to the needs of the service. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to
[email protected], as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
- a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
