Job Introduction
We’re recruiting a Team Manager – Children in Care to join our dedicated Children’s Social Care service at Milton Keynes City Council.
Children in Care is responsible for ensuring Milton Keynes City Council fulfils its statutory legal responsibilities by meeting the needs of the children we care for. This role plays a vital part in making sure children experience safety, stability and positive outcomes through high quality social work practice.
As a Team Manager, you’ll lead and support a team of social workers to deliver consistent, child centred practice. You’ll focus on strong performance management, effective budget oversight and high quality supervision, ensuring statutory duties are met and children’s plans progress without delay.
This is a rewarding leadership role where your experience will directly influence practice quality and outcomes for children in our care.
This is a Site-Based role, and you’ll be expected to work from the designated workplace.
Interviews for this role will be held on 15 May
At Milton Keynes City Council, we aim to make a difference every day. We’re dedicated, respectful and collaborative. We act as one council, and we work hard to create cleaner, safer and healthier communities while tackling inequalities and supporting people to thrive.
Find out more about working with us here: www.mkcounciljobs.org.uk
Main Responsibility
- Managing, supervising and supporting a team of social workers and newly qualified colleagues.
- Ensuring children in care receive timely, high quality assessments, plans and reviews that meet statutory requirements.
- Driving strong performance through oversight of caseloads, quality assurance and reflective supervision.
- Managing budgets effectively and ensuring resources are used responsibly.
- Working closely with partner agencies to deliver coordinated support for children and young people.
- Contributing to service development and continuous improvement across Children’s Social Care.
- Supporting a positive team culture that values learning, accountability and collaboration.
The Ideal Candidate
- A recognised social work qualification and registration with Social Work England.
- Significant experience working with children in care within a statutory setting.
- Proven experience of supervising and managing social workers.
- Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance and best practice.
- Confidence in performance management and quality assurance.
- Experience of managing budgets and resources effectively.
- The ability to lead with empathy, resilience and clear decision making.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively.
To be successful in this role, you’ll need a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle. If we offer you the role, we’ll ask you to provide evidence of your driving licence and vehicle insurance, including cover for business use. We’re unable to confirm an appointment until these documents are received.
As part of the pre-employment checks, should you be offered the role, we’ll carry out an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, (unless you are currently registered with the DBS Update Service).
Package Description
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:
- Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28 days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32 days after five years. In addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.
- Excellent pension – everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.
- A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support and a childcare subsidy.
- Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.
- Salary sacrifice car scheme – low-cost leasing of electric and low emission vehicles.
- Blue Light Card - employees working within social care can qualify for an additional range of discounts from national retailers and local businesses.
Why join us? Along with more on our Benefits, discover why Working at the City Council could be the right move for you here Working at the Council | Milton Keynes
Our roles are either designated ‘site based’ or ‘home based’. ‘Site based’ roles can include up to two days a week working from home whilst ‘home based’ roles are based at home four days a week. Of course, managers designate which category roles are in based on the needs of the service and the circumstances.
About The Organisation
Milton Keynes City Council is a large, modern and financially stable employer with around 2,500 people working across our eight areas. Together we provide local residents and businesses with a wide range of important round-the-clock services and aim to make our city a better place to live.
We work hard because of the demands placed on us, like protecting children from harm or preventing homelessness. However, working for the city is always rewarding and everyone has the opportunity to make a real difference.
We’re very proud of our diversity and are committed to having a workforce that reflects the community we serve. Whatever your background, you will be welcome here if you share our values of being dedicated, respectful and collaborative.
We offer great training and support and because of the size and scale of the organisation there are always new opportunities to explore when it’s time for a new role.
If you’d like to know more about how we do things and what matters to us, take a look at our short booklet What makes us Milton Keynes City Council.
