Team Manager Young Adults Disability Team

Team Manager Young Adults Disability

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Leicestershire Various
Salary: 49221 - 53826 per annum
Working Hours:37 hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date:4^th March 2026

Interviews:W/c 9^th March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Permanent Team Manager post to work in the Adult Social Care Young Adults Disability (YAD) Team within the current management team. The successful applicant will work with our existing and established management structure within the YAD. There is a current full-time manager in post and you would share the responsibility for overall management and service development and delivery. The ideal candidate for this role will have extensive knowledge of working in an Adult Social Care setting especially to support young people aged 16 plus as part of their preparation for adulthood.

About the Role

The Team Manager will be operationally responsible for the day-to-day management of a team of Social Workers and community support workers or trainee Community support workers within the team. The Team Manager will maintain a high performing team provide high standards and an effective service to ensure that the Operating Model is delivered.

The key duties:

• To improve outcomes for people by ensuring that staff can provide good outcomes for people by implementing the departments operating model and ways of working to deliver social care
• To provide technical and professional support to team members.
• To improve ways of working for staff by supporting and implementing improved working between team childrens services and partner agencies with an MDT focus.
• To manage staffing budgets and staff performance using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity capability and delivery.
• To ensure the effective management of team performance and resources.
• To provide performance and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and HOS

About You

To apply for this post you must:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent management experience
• Have substantial adult social care experience and knowledge of The Care Act 2014
• Significant experience in people and performance management
• Have experience in successfully prioritising between competing service demands in addition to supporting staff completing complex assessment in relation to situations where there are complex mental health and or physical health needs.
• Understand partnership pressures and interdependencies relative to service area
• Have knowledge of supporting staff undertaking complex safeguarding Court of Protection including s16 Welfare Application and S21A Appeals and Court Statement to aid in Community Deprivation of Liberty safeguard applications.
• Be able to develop trust within the team and encourage team members to build positive trusting relationships with each other across departments and with customers service users partners and/or the community as appropriate

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

In addition we expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a are aDisability Confident Employer.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are open to discussions about flexible working which may include part time working job sharing term-time working flexible start and finish times and hybrid working depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact:

Claire McWilliams-Head of Servicehere

Anne Goodwin-Strategic Service Managerhere

How to Apply

At Leicestershire County Council were looking for top talent from all walks of life. Whoever you are wherever youre from and whatever your background - we care about what you bring to our organisation not just whats on your CV. Thats why weve designed a recruitment process thats fair accessible and focused on potential. And with benefits that support people at every age and stage of life we make sure you can thrive - both personally and professionally.

If you share our passion to make a difference for the people of Leicestershire wed love to hear from you. Click the apply button to submit your application ensuring that you upload a supporting statement that explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. Without this information we wont be able to assess your suitability for the role and your application will be rejected. For tips on how to write your statement see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

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