Team Leader - Support Team

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Team Leader - Support Team
• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 2, 1st Floor
• Salary: £49,817- £53,051 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 27/09/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14863
• This post is open to job share

We are currently recruiting for a Team Leader to join our Children in Care Stability Provision Team.

Reward and Support

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

• between £49,817- £53,051 per annum subject to experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
• 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)

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

At Gloucestershire, we are committed to ensuring the very best outcomes for our Children in Care. To achieve this, we need exceptional leaders, those who are passionate, driven, and ready to make a real difference. If that sounds like you, this could be an ideal opportunity.

We are proud of the progress we’ve made and the strong foundations we’ve built. As we continue to deliver excellent services to our children, we are looking to appoint an additional Team Leader to grow our Stability Provision as part of our Children in Care Services. This is a pivotal role, created to provide team leadership and ensure children in care quality time with family and those who are important to them in a safe environment.

About the role

As one of five Team Leaders within our Stability Provision, you will report directly to the Service Manager and take the lead in shaping and overseeing:

• one of the Family Time teams within the service
• lead and develop operational practice to ensure children experience family time positively
• work in partnership across the provision and with partners to ensure children’s needs are met and their potential reached

Our service is underpinned by a set of core principles:

• outcome-focused: We aim high and deliver on our promises
• collaborative: We work closely with children, families, colleagues, and partners
• strengths-based: We build on what’s working and foster strong relationships
• reflective: We challenge ourselves to ask, “so what?” and ensure our actions lead to meaningful change
• invested in people: We create the conditions for excellent social work to flourish

We’re looking for a skilled and knowledgeable leader who can inspire and support their team to deliver high-quality, impactful practice. You’ll play a key role in creating a culture that puts children at the heart of everything we do and drives continuous improvement across the service.

You will

• lead a team of Family Support Workers supporting family time for children and families involved in court proceedings and children in care
• lead and provide day to day management of the team
• ensure professional supervision of the team
• represent the team in multi-agency working
• support and oversee life story work
• establish an effective and collaborative relationship with social work team managers, to achieve progress and stability
• be part of a management team overseeing a rapid response service and contribute to out of hours management cover

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

For more details, please contact Lisa Cornell: Lisa.cornell@gloucestershire.gov.uk Tel. 01452 425236

Interviews are due to be held on the 8th & 9th October 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.

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.

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:-

Team Leader (Stability) Role 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.