Fostering Deputy Team Manager

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This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title:
  
  Fostering Deputy Team Manager
• Job Location:
  
  Shire Hall, Block 6
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Closing Date: 15/02/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 13420

We are currently recruiting for a Deputy Team Manager to join our Fostering Support Team on a permanant basis.

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

• between £48,226 - £51,356 per annum subject to experience (pro rata for part-time staff)
• 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
• 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
• 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

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.

Our Fostering Support Teams are responsible for supporting Gloucestershire’s fostering households. We work with foster carers and their families enabling them to provide therapeutic and nurturing parenting to children in their care. Join our friendly Fostering Service where you will receive regular reflective supervision, evidence-based training and support to develop and progress. Our teams are made up of a Team Manager, Deputy Team Manager, Supervising Social Workers, and Family Support Workers.

As a Deputy Team Manager, you will be expected to offer day to day support for the Team Manager. Tasks can involve supervision, performance management, delivery of high quality services, providing a culture of continuous professional development and assisting with the team budget. You can also expect to take accountability for the legal process on behalf of the Council which includes attending Court as and when required, and managing staff performance.

You will be familiar with the relevant legislative processes relating to Fostering, have a positive attitude, good problem-solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills. We are looking for well informed and dynamic individuals who…