Team Manager

Number of Vacancies:

1

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Regular

Proposed Interview Date:

Monday, October 12, 2026

Hours of Work:

37

Hiring Manager:

Gaynor Skelton

Contact Number: 

[phone removed]

Job Description Summary:

This is a full time permanent position which will be available at offer stage.

If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks.

We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic Team Managers to join Hull. We are seeking managers with drive and passion who can operate with integrity and ambition for our service. You should have significant knowledge and experience of working with children and young people, including an in-depth understanding of the legislation and guidance which directs how the service is delivered. We are looking for someone who has the skills to be a strong and capable manager who can support and supervise a team of staff to deliver consistent and creative services to children, young people and carers. You should be able to evidence that you are able to deliver change and work effectively within a performance framework to ensure high quality social work.

At Hull City Council we are committed to our children and young people and we are passionate about how we deliver services to them. That’s why we are developing and nurturing a culture that puts our children and young people at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our workforce to work together to find solutions, to be open, honest and respectful, to take responsibility and listen and learn from others.

Hull Children's Services has recently achieved its strongest ever Ofsted judgement, being rated Good overall, with Outstanding judgements for the impact of leaders on social work practice and for the experiences and progress of care leavers. Inspectors recognised the significant progress made across the service, describing it as "safer, stronger and more consistent" for children and families.

Ofsted highlighted Hull's strong workforce culture, effective early help services, strong management oversight, and a commitment to ensuring children's voices are central to decision-making.

This is an exciting time to join Hull. We are a service with a clear vision, ambitious plans for the future, and a workforce committed to improving the lives of children, young people and families every day. 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.

Why it's great to work for Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary of up to £53,460
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Up to 229.4 hours per annum annual leave depending on grade and 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
• A generous relocation package available
• Supportive and forward thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities
• Flexible working hours.

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.