About this role

Are you an experienced and confident manager who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families where there are complex needs and persistent or chronic neglect?

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated and resilient Team Manager to lead our West and Breckland Enhanced Family Help Team. You will provide clear operational leadership to a smaller, specialist multi-disciplinary team delivering statutory and non-statutory help and protection to children aged 0–17 and their families.

The team works intensively with families where needs are complex and neglect is persistent or chronic. You will help staff understand the root causes, patterns and cumulative impact of neglect, keep a clear focus on each child’s lived experience, and ensure plans build on family strengths and support sustained positive change.

You will lead a team of Social Workers, Family Practitioners, a Clinician and Home-Based Support Workers. You will support strong multi-disciplinary planning, oversee work shared across the team and lead Team Around the Family supervision so that support is coordinated, purposeful and responsive to each child and family.

As Team Manager, you will allocate and authorise work, maintain robust oversight of all open cases and lead threshold and risk discussions. You will provide reflective supervision, professional challenge and clear management direction, while supporting staff wellbeing, development and performance. You will use audits, dip sampling, dashboards and performance conversations to set clear expectations and maintain high-quality, timely practice.

You will need to make sound decisions under pressure, chair key meetings and work closely with children, families, colleagues and partner agencies. You will model relationship-based, restorative and anti-discriminatory practice, oversee budgets and resources, and help ensure intervention is timely, effective and sustainable. The role requires a recognised social work qualification, registration with Social Work England, frontline management experience and substantial experience of working with children and families.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

If you have any questions or would like to hear more about the role or team, please get in touch with David Leeves, Head of Family Help – [email protected].

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
- Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependant on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as: ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out. (https://norfolk.rewardgateway.co.uk/Authentication/Start)
- A Blue Light card (https://www.bluelightcard.co.uk/) for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
- Relocation expenses (where applicable)
- An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
- Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
- Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

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We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

Redeployment closing date: 16 October 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 25 October 2026 at 23:55