Fostering Deputy Team Manager

Gloucestershiremusic; Kings Barton; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - GBP 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in England seeks a Fostering Deputy Team Manager to join its Fostering Support Team, offering a permanent role with competitive pay ranging from £48,226 to £51,356 annually. Responsibilities include supporting service delivery, supervising team dynamics, and ensuring compliance with legal frameworks. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills and a positive attitude, alongside required driving licence and DBS clearance. This role is critical for fostering households and supports career development opportunities.

Benefits

Up to £8,000 relocation package

25.5 days annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Familiar with relevant legislative processes related to Fostering.
• Dynamic individuals with experience in fostering assessments & review processes.
• Must hold a full driving licence and willingness to drive.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Manager with day-to-day operations.
• Oversee performance management and service quality delivery.
• Attend Court as required and manage staff performance.

Skills

Positive attitude

Problem-solving skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

Education

Completed ASYE year (if qualified after 2012)

Job description

Overview

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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
• This post is open to job share

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

Reward and Support

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

Right child, right support, right time, every time

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.

About the team

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.

About the role

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.

About You

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 are familiar with fostering assessments & review processes, appreciate and feel passionate about supporting families and are aware of the complexities these families are often managing.

As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• a full driving licence and willingness to drive
• DBS clearance (Enhanced Adults and Children’s)
• to have completed your ASYE year (if you qualified after 2012)

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact Dan Williams on [e-mail].

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Interviews are due to take place in person at Shire Hall on Friday 27th February.

We may be able to offer sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office guidance and subject to pre-employment checks. Applicants must already hold a valid right to work in the UK that Gloucestershire County Council can transfer.

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior).

Additional Information

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This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

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