Deputy Social Care Manager

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This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title:
  
  Deputy Social Care Manager
• Job Location:
  
  Shire Hall
• Contract Type:
  Permanent
• Closing Date: 05/08/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14583
• This post is not open to job share

Are you looking for your next step in your Social Work management career?

Adult Social Care has an exciting opportunity for a full time (37 hours) Deputy Social Care Manager position within our Learning Disabilities Team. This role is a combination of frontline and strategic level management.

Under the direction of the Head of Learning Disability Services, the Deputy Social Care Manager (DSCM) is responsible for ensuring the team’s social work practice and values, to deliver positive outcomes. The DSCM will achieve this through ensuring team arrangements are in place for supervision, workload management, quality assurance and the effective deployment of the budget, staff and additional resources.

This is an interesting and varied role within an established and supportive team that are motivated, passionate and engaged. There is a full complement of management in the team which consists of a Head of Learning Disability Services, a Deputy Social Care Manager, Social Work Leads and a Social Care Lead. Other team members include qualified Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, Adult Social Care Practitioners and an administration team.

Being part of this service means that you have a supportive established network of peers that encourages regular communication and a platform for collaborative solutions, with opportunities to develop further excellent working relationships with professionals from across the council and other agencies. See how Gloucestershire Adult Social Care’s Makethedifferenceapproach is transforming lives and reinvigorating social work in the county by reading our Community Care Editorial.

The position is based in Shire Hall, Gloucester. We offer flexible working with a mix of office and home working. To find out more about working in Learning Development team, visit our “Meet the Teams” webpage.

We are looking for an individual who has experience in line management within a multi-disciplinary environment. The ideal candidate will have:

• Substantial experience of working with vulnerable adults or evidence of transferable experience in a statutory health or adult social care setting
• Effective leadership, providing support and modelling engagement in the most challenging of circumstances, including with partner agencies, stakeholders and other professionals
• Experience in undertaking line management duties, including appraisal and formal performance management of staff
• Experience of financial decision making in the context of managing allocated team budgets
• Significant up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and procedures

Providing inspirational and credible leadership, building and owning strong relationships politically, externally and internally, are all important qualities for this role.

Ourvaluesare at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about.

Read more about our values on our website.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.

Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that’s exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:

• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Free parking at our office in Cheltenham
• Agile working with a mix of office and home working
• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment
• Robust supervision and training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills. Including personal licences to Adults CCINFORM, access to mandatory training and…