Team Manager Family Safeguarding

About the job

Key information

• Hybrid working with an agreement that Team Managers should be in their office base on their duty week and 3/5 days per week on non duty weeks.
• A commitment to your CPD through a bespoke learning and development programme
• Regular, quality, reflective supervision, and learning
• A supportive management and leadership team
• 33 days annual leave allowance plus bank holidays

What will I be doing?

You will be joining a permanent management team, including some experienced colleagues and some who are at the beginning of their management career. You will join a team where we are all about relationship-based and strengths-based management, and where Team Managers work together across the service to provide an excellent service to families, and support and develop our teams. You’ll be encouraged to be an autonomous manager, but you’ll be supported all the way by your colleagues and your line manager.

You’ll be leading a Family Safeguarding team which is staffed with a balance of experienced and newly qualified workers. You will work with skilled adult-focused practitioners and enjoy positive relationships with managers in the agencies who are part of our Family Safeguarding model. Workers in our Family Safeguarding teams received positive feedback during our recent Ofsted inspection and team diagnostics, for their proactive and thoughtful support to children and their families and the quality of their care planning.

What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?

You might be someone with some supervisory experience who’s looking to step up into your first management role, or you might be someone who has management experience already who is looking for a change. You will be passionate about relationship-based social work, proud of your profession, and able to reflect and think creatively about how to support your team and contribute to the organisation as a whole. You will need to be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England and have substantial experience working with children and families in social work.

What is in it for me?

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more

DBS check

This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.

Supporting documents and information

The salary for this role is £47,754 per annum plus £5000 per annum recruitment allowance

Feel free to get in touch with Sussanah Heywood for an informal discussion on 07826902744 or via email, sussanah.heywood@somerset.gov.uk

Interviews will take place Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 August 2025

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button – we can’t wait to hear from you.

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