Team Manager - Children and Families

About the Team

Are you an experienced Team Manager with a passion for improving safeguarding practice and drivinghighqualitymultiagency work across Warwickshire?

We are seeking a permanent Team Managerto lead our Audits and Safeguarding Partnership programme. The successful candidate will oversee the Children and Families Practice Improvement programme, leading on Safeguarding Partnership engagement activities, driving learning from practice, and ensuring that improvement loops are fully closed to embed sustainable change.

This role plays a vital part in supporting Warwickshire's statutory duties within the Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) and contributes to positive outcomes for children, youngpeopleand families.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embedour familiesFirstteams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working,multi-disciplinaryandmulti-agencyteams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire's Children and Families service. Click here to find out more aboutWarwickshire County Council's Children and Families Service.

Your Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.

• Full reimbursement of Social Work England annual fee

• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition togenerous annual leave and anadditionalday at Christmas

• We also offer a Refer a Friend packagefor some roles. Terms and Conditions apply

About the Role

As Team Manager, you will lead a team of auditors responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements and internal practice across Warwickshire. Your team will oversee thematic audit activities, undertaking moderations and detailed audit work. You will ensure that findings are clearly presented to a range of internal and partnership forums, providing advisory support to drive service development and continuous improvement.

You willrepresentChildren's Services at a safeguarding partnership level, ensuring that quality assurance activity directly informs practice improvement, strategic priorities, and multiagency learning. This includes providing rigorous oversight of safeguarding governance, coordinating responses to OFSTED notifications and alerts, and contributing to Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPRs), critical incident responses, and associated learning processes to ensurehighquality,timelyand transparent safeguarding practice across the system.

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Key Requirements

• Lead and supervise the Quality Assurance team to deliverhighquality audit, review and learning activity aligned to WSCP frameworks

• Oversee multiagency audits, dip samples, deepdivesand thematic reviews, producing clear analysis of strengths,risksand areas for improvement

• Convert audit findings into actionable learning, leading reflectivegroupsand feedback sessions to embed improvements

• Ensure the voices of children, young people and families inform assurance and practice development

• Produce highquality reports for strategic boards and partnership groups, ensuring compliance with WSCP governance andinformationsharingrequirements

• Support through partnership accountability, continuous improvement, and systemwide safeguarding assurance

• Be a key link for C&F to the WSCP supporting all levels of child and family reviews; including attendance at key review meetings and panels

• Influence partnership priorities anddecisionmakingby ensuring audit findings drive service development and policy change

Applicants must have a professional qualification in Social Work and Social Work England Registration.

If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire's Children and Families service.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.

Working for Warwickshire - This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feelsvalued, included, safe, supported,andwelcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training,skillsand infrastructure.Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council isa great placeto work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement.The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and anadditionalday at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

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Additional Information

Warwickshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, youngpeopleand adults. Please be advised successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).In accordance withthe DBS code of practiceand our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

To discuss the role please contact Loiri Hurley:

Closing Date:09th April 2026
Interview Date:W/C20th April2026

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more