Deputy Team Manager

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Deputy Team Manager
• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 6
• Salary: £48,226 - £51,356 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 28/06/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14297
• This post is not open to job share
  
  
  

We are seeking a part-time Deputy Team Manager to join our Kinship Support Team on a permanent basis.

Reward and support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• Between £48,226 - £51,356 per annum subject to experience
• £4,000 welcome payment*
• £2,000 retention payment*
• up to £8,000 relocation package**
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service (pro rata for part-time staff)
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• 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
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• Cycle to Work scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Green Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme (eligibility criteria and t&cs apply)
• Please note that all our welcome and retention payments are subject to terms and conditions as well as tax and national insurance deductions
• Please note that our relocation policy is subject to terms and conditions
  
  
  

Right child, right support, right time, every time

In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘ Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’

This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About The Team

This is an important and exciting time to join the service, following the recent implementation of our Kinship Local Offer, which strengthens our support to kinship carers and the children they care for across the county.

The Kinship Support Team Has Responsibility For

• supervising and supporting kinship foster carers
• overseeing private fostering arrangements in line with statutory duties
• providing post-order support to Special Guardianship (SGO) carers, ensuring placements remain stable and sustainable
  
  
  

About You

As Deputy Team Manager, you will support the Team Manager in the effective leadership and management of the team. This will include providing supervision and guidance to staff, supporting high standards of practice, and ensuring compliance with statutory responsibilities and safeguarding requirements.

You will work collaboratively with children’s social care teams and partner agencies to promote positive outcomes for children, ensuring they are cared for in safe, stable, and nurturing family environments.

The role requires strong leadership skills, sound practice knowledge, and the ability to support and develop staff within a busy and evolving service.

We offer a supportive working environment, with flexible working arrangements, including opportunities for home working where appropriate.

As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• a full driving licence and willingness to drive
• DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s)
• to have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012)
  
  
  

How To Apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact [email protected].

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Interviews are due to take place in person on 7th July 2026.

If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Careers hub

We welcome applications from newly qualified and social workers in the early years of their career. Depending on your qualification date and previous experience, you will be invited to either join our accredited ASYE programme or to complete an alternative early‑career development in-house pathway. The appropriate option will be explored and confirmed as part of the interview and offer process.

We may be able to offer sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office guidance and subject to pre-employment checks. Applicants must already hold a valid right to work in the UK that Gloucestershire County Council can transfer.

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 shortlisting criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview 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.
  
  
  

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Fostering Deputy Team Manager job profile

This position is subject to a 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.

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.

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.