Specialist Team Manager

About the Team

Fixed term until March 2029

This role sits within Warwickshire's Education & SEND Family Help Service, a specialist service within our Families First model. The team provides targeted and preventative support to children, young people and families where SEND, neurodiversity, mental health, education engagement, school attendance or inclusion are central to the presenting need.

Our aim is to provide earlier specialist support that helps prevent needs escalating to crisis, placement breakdown, exclusion, inpatient admission or the need for higher-cost statutory intervention. We work alongside Locality Family Help Teams and maintain strong partnerships with Education, SEND, Health, Mental Health and community services to ensure children and families receive the right support at the right time.

We are committed to delivering child-centred, family-led and evidence-informed practice. Our focus is on improving outcomes for children and young people by strengthening educational engagement, promoting inclusion, supporting family resilience and ensuring that services work together around one coherent plan.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Warwickshire as we continue to embed our Families First approach. Our multidisciplinary and multi-agency model brings together specialist expertise and locality-based support to improve outcomes for children and families across the county.

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the young people in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi disciplinary and multi agency teams 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 about Warwickshire County Council’s Children and Families Service.

Our Offer to you includes:

• Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
• A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas
• We also offer a Refer a Friend package for some roles. Terms and Conditions apply
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About the Role

We are recruiting for an Enhanced Team Leader (Specialist Qualified) to lead the Education & SEND Family Help Team.

The successful candidate will provide leadership, management oversight and quality assurance for a specialist team of Family Practitioners delivering targeted support to children, young people and families across Warwickshire. You will play a key role in shaping and embedding Warwickshire's Education & SEND Family Help offer and driving positive outcomes for children and families.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading a specialist Family Help team delivering targeted and preventative interventions.
• Managing incoming work, prioritisation, allocation, review and closure of cases to ensure timely and proportionate support.
• Providing supervision, support and development to Family Practitioners and wider team members.
• Ensuring high-quality direct work, specialist consultation and practical interventions for children and families.
• Supporting children and young people experiencing attendance difficulties, school exclusion, emotionally based school avoidance, SEND-related family stress, mental health escalation and placement instability.
• Strengthening multi-agency planning and ensuring coordinated support around the child and family.
• Monitoring performance, quality and outcomes through audit, data analysis and family feedback.
• Representing Warwickshire County Council at multi-agency forums and developing strong partnerships with education, health, police, community and voluntary sector services.
• Supporting service development and embedding innovative approaches that improve outcomes and reduce escalation of need.
• Deputising for the Service Manager when required

Key Requirements

We are looking for an experienced leader with significant experience of working within children's services, early help, family support or youth work. You will have a strong understanding of education, SEND and multi-agency working and be passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people and families.

You will be able to:

• Lead and motivate a high-performing team.
• Provide effective management oversight and supervision.
• Build strong relationships with children, families and partner agencies.
• Use data, audit and performance information to drive service improvement.
• Promote child-centred, family-led and evidence-informed practice.
• Lead coordinated multi-agency support and partnership working.
• Manage change and contribute to the development of innovative services.

The role involves countywide working and occasional travel across Warwickshire. Agile working is supported, with flexibility required to meet the needs of children, young people and families.

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below;

Specialist Team Manager

Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. 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, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to 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 an additional day 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, young people and 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 with the DBS code of practice and 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.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don't want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

To discuss the role please contact Derri Coupland derricoupland@warwickshire.gov.uk

Closing Date: 5th November 26
Interview Date: 18th November 26

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 hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk 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