About the Role
We are recruiting a Team Manager for our Family and Adolescent Team (South) on a permanent basis. As Team Manager you will provide leadership, direction and oversight to a multi‑disciplinary team working with adolescents and families experiencing extra‑familial harm and complex contextual risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing strong, consistent leadership and management oversight to social workers and practitioners, ensuring high‑quality, child‑centred and relationship‑based practice
- Driving a contextual safeguarding approach for adolescents experiencing exploitation, missing episodes, peer harm and risk beyond the family home
- Ensuring robust supervision, performance management and professional development for staff
- Leading effective multi‑agency working across Police, Health, Education and community partners
- Supporting the implementation of the Families First model within a locality‑based framework
Key Requirements
- A recognised Social Work qualification and Social Work England registration
- Proven experience of managing or supervising social work staff
- Experience of working with adolescents and complex safeguarding, including contextual and extra‑familial harm (or transferable leadership experience)
- Ability to work flexibly across the locality, including travel within the county
- Willingness to participate in occasional out‑of‑hours or weekend work, in line with service demands
Benefits
Market Supplement: up to £60,583 per annum (includes a £3,500 pro‑rated annual market supplement, subject to pension, tax and NI deductions). The role also offers generous annual leave, an additional day at Christmas, a voluntary volunteering & wellbeing day, full reimbursement of the Social Work England annual fee and a Refer a Friend package for some roles.
Qualifications and Conditions
All successful applicants will be subject to pre‑engagement checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The role requires fluency in spoken English and adherence to the Fluency Duty. Employees will also be required to undergo Non‑Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV).
Equal Opportunities
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.
Closing Date
3rd June 2026
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