Team Manager Charnwood Duty

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA

Salary: Gradeper annum (pro-rata for part-time) (Pay award pending)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 27^th April 2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

We are recruiting a small team to operate a permanent duty function for Operational Commissioning services in Charnwood and Melton. This advert is for a Team Manager to lead the service please see separate adverts for the Social Workers and Community Support Workers that will make up the team.

The successful candidate will be motivated and experienced in Adult Social Care; able to support staff to make timely legal defensible assessments and decisions which best support the most vulnerable adults in Leicestershire. The duty team will cover Cognitive and Physical Disability; Mental Health and Learning Disability and Autism service areas working closely with the teams and managers in those areas.

You will be supported to develop the role and the service to best meet need. The initial pilot of this function is for one year at which point it will either be embedded permanently or other arrangements made. The successful candidate will retain a permanent role in either case.

About the Role

• Ensure staff deliver excellent outcomes for people with Care Act eligibility by implementing the departments operating model and ways of working to deliver excellence in social care.
• Provide technical and professional support to team members including professional development.
• To support ways of working for staff by continuing and building upon close working between teams and partner agencies including NHS partners ICBs inpatient units community mental health teams and voluntary agencies.
• Manage staffing budgets staff performance and service delivery to ensure efficiency highquality and legally compliant aftercare using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity capability and delivery.
• Provide performance reporting and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and the Head of Service.
• Participate in Out of Hours rota and undertake DoLs signoff responsibilities.

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

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About You

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience. We welcome supervisory/management qualifications or evidence of continual management development
• Substantial social care experience in Adult Social Care or Health organisations and successful working with managers and staff inpeople and performance management Stakeholder and relationship management.
• Demonstrable experience in managing performance and implementing changeand performance improvement programmes along with experience of business planning prioritising competing service demands.
• Proven experience in budget managing and in delivering significant efficiency savings
• Theoretical practical and procedural knowledge of social work and social care legislation policy and best practise along with skills and knowledge relevant to the service area.
• Breadth of understanding of the range of interventions available
• Excellent knowledge of partnership agencies in statutory voluntary on independent factors including understanding of partnership pressures an interdependencies relative to service area.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection 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:

Aiden Neaves Strategic Service Manager
Tel: 0

Nina Manning Strategic Service Manager ;

Susan Callis Head of Service-

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 theHow to Applysection 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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