Team Manager Five

Number of Vacancies:

0

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Regular

Proposed Interview Date:

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Hours of Work:

37

Hiring Manager:

Kerrie Wilson

Contact Number: 

01482 616626

Job Description Summary:

This is a full time permanent post.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Team Manager to join our Children’s Services. The post will be based within our Assessment and Duty Team, providing strong leadership in a fast paced statutory environment. In May 2026 Ofsted judged Hull children's services to be good overall with outstanding leadership, now is an exciting time to join us!

As part of our transformation programme aligned with the Family First partnership and social care reforms, There will be some changes to the role as we move into our implementation period over the coming months. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting this change, embedding good practice and ensuring timely, proportionate, and child focused decision making.

ROLE AND PURPOSE

Team Managers will be based in one of the following service areas:

• Early Help and Safeguarding Hub (EHASH) & Assessment
• Locality Based Safeguarding Teams
• Children and Families Disability Team (CFDT)
• Permanence Teams

The role will manage a team of Social Workers (and other staff) within a social care service and a wider Children, Young People and Families Directorate. The key purpose of the role is to ensure high quality social work practice which achieves the best possible outcomes (and progress) for children and young people in need of social work support, assessment and intervention.

The post of Team Manager will ensure that standards of practice are high and that quality, including the delivery of evidenced based systemic practice, is a consistent focus for the whole team.

Importantly, the Team Manager role will model key elements of Systemic Practice including:

• A strengths and relationship based approach
• Different perspectives and collaboration
• Family & Goal orientated plans which are SMART
• The value of systemic tools such as; genograms

 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Strategy   

Team Managers are responsible for the performance and practice of the team.

Teams Managers will prioritise the quality of practice balanced alongside a focus on a set of agreed performance measures, based on statutory and inspection requirements.

Team Managers will drive key service and directorate wide priorities and ensure that the team is fully informed and engaged within its wider context – a directorate, a council and a wider partnership.

2. Customer Focus

The Team Manger will lead and drive key aspects of partnership working.  The role will work in partnership with colleagues, parents and carers to ensure that child centred, purposeful systemic practice is the standard for all social work and related practice. Team Managers will routinely seek feedback from children, young people and families through Quality Assurance work, learning from complaints and compliments received.

Team Managers will set a tone which listens and values user feedback, whilst ensuring that feedback is shared and escalated when appropriate, in order to influence service design and improvement.       

3. Performance Management

Team Managers will complete routine Quality Assurance work in order to ensure that learning is embedded within team culture and practice. Quality Assurance includes; case audits, observation of practice & Feedback from Children, Young People and Families.

Team Managers will monitor practice and individual / team performance using a Performance Dash Board and other Performance Reports. Importantly, Team Managers will prioritise performance management tasks and approach them in a way which sets a tone of continuos improvement, learning and development.

4. Leadership

Team Managers will be responsible for the allocation of work to team members and the transfer of work between other parts of the social care system. Team Managers will have a sound knowledge and oversight of the team caseload at any point, whilst promoting a set of system wide priorities and standards around work flow and a transfer process. Importantly, Team Managers will achieve a balanced focus between the team caseload and a priority to ensure workflow/ transition through the system in a timely way.

Team Managers will make and record their decisions around case work, ensuring that all work is well planned and purposeful in order to effect positive change for children.

Where possible, the goal will be to support children safely with the minimum of statutory intervention possible, promoting a principle of ‘normality’, family based care and early help community based services which are local and accessible.

Team Managers will prioritise decision making which is predicated on a high degree of systemic and reflective thinking.    

5. Statutory Obligations

Team Managers will be required to understand, and present to their teams, a set of statutory requirements which apply to the whole social care system. In addition, Team Managers will have a higher level of understanding and directly manage a set of statutory requirements which specifically relate to the service area in which they work.

Statutory requirements, whether timescales or an explicit process, will be a key priority and accountability of the role.

Team Managers will routinely make and review decisions around complex casework, including high levels of risk.

In addition, Team Managers will play a key and important role in preparing the team for inspection and supporting team members through an inspection process, ensuring that identified learning and key recommendations are taken forward.

     

6. Team Managers will provide regular formal and individual supervision for all team members. The two key elements of supervision will be; case supervision and individual supervision. Team Managers will prioritise the supervision of staff and follow the local supervision policy.

Formal supervision and other case discussion will focus on the assessment of risk and outcomes at any given time. Team Managers will be required  to provide support, challenge and direction to staff and make decisions in relation to complex and high risk cases.

Team Managers will facilitate routine, reflective team supervision.

7. Team Managers will be responsible for a number of management tasks and accountabilities, following local policy and procedure, including;

• Complaint investigations

• Sickness monitoring

• Individual Employee Performance (IEP)

• Staff recruitment

8. Team Managers will lead and develop effective partnerships with schools, other services and agencies in order to achieve ‘a coordinated approach to ensure effective safeguarding arrangements’ (Section 10, the Children Act 2004) and support other organisations and individuals to ensure their functions and practice has sufficient regard to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

9. The role will maintain a continued focus on developing people and systemic practice within the team, contributing to a wider team and single service. In addition to supervision, Team Managers will prioritise staff development and skill sharing within the team, in order to deliver the best possible practice and service for children and families.

Team Managers are required to set a tone that the team as a learning system, providing support and (constructive) challenge, promoting a culture which learns, is clear about accountability but does not blame.

Team Managers will work with colleagues, and their managers, to plan and deliver team and service development time, involving team members and Clinicians.

10. Team Managers are required to work closely with peers, their managers and within a wider system. Team Managers will attend and contribute to routine decision making panels and have oversight of all court work managed by the team.

 

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Compensation Grades:

GRADES 11.

Pay Ranges:

£50,269.00 - £53,460.00

Job Classifications:

3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), 5- Enhanced & Childrens Barring List - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), OSP - Other Support Staff (School WorkForce Census), Statutory Post - (Statutory Post), Yes - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement)

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:
- A competitive salary
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- Supportive and forward-thinking culture
- Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description. 

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.