Team Manager (Permanency) Role Profile
Team Manager Recruitment Advert – Permanency Service
This is a great time to join Plymouth as a Team Manager. Our Ofsted Inspection in January 2024 and Focused Visit in July 2025 found many key practice strengths. Between Inspections we have secured many improvements for care-experienced young people through the ongoing progress of our three year improvement plan Achieving Excellence. We are actively progressing the implementation of the Families First Partnership reforms to ensure families receive outstanding help and protection and to create the conditions for practitioners to achieve outstanding practice, including by reducing caseloads to 12.
Our Permanence Service works with children in care with agreed plans for long term, stable care. We are seeking a committed and dynamic individual to lead a Team of Social Workers and deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people in our care. We have recently revised our ambitious corporate parenting strategy with young people The Sky's The Limit (Our Corporate Parenting Strategy) | PLYMOUTH.GOV.UK setting out our where we will now improve further. We are looking for someone to join our service who is aspirational for our children and will work creatively with partners and support their team to achieve the best outcomes for them.
As a Team Manager you will be confident in what good and outstanding practice looks like and in supporting your team to deliver timely and effective assessments, planning and interventions across the child's journey. You will be committed to restorative and relationship driven approaches and have experience of bringing out the best in people. We offer a supportive team environment, a commitment to manageable workloads, high quality support and supervision, and access to excellent learning and development opportunities from our Plymouth Academy to support you to develop at all stages of your career.
Our social workers know their children and young people well and build positive relationships with them. As a whole Council, we are an ambitious corporate parent ensuring all children and young people experience high quality assessment and planning, which improves wider outcomes for them. We keep families together where possible, working closely with partners to ensure our children and young people safe and enhance their lives included through, education, health and wellbeing. We have a programme of work to ensure children in care are looked after in families near Plymouth, with love, stability and security. You will be committed to ensuring children and young people’s voices are at the heart of our everything we do.
We are developing a high performing and well supported workforce delivering our trauma informed, restorative and strengths-based practice approach. We are determined that within the next three years we will deliver good and outstanding outcomes for all the children and young people we are working with. Fundamental to this is the implementation of Rethink Formulation, a new practice framework to support reflective decision making,
We know that best practice takes the best Social Workers and Team Managers; you will be joining a stable and supportive service, can expect to have your learning prioritised and have access to opportunities for career development and progression, including from our Social Work Academy. This includes access to a leadership and management development programme to help your career progress further with us. You will receive a competitive salary and a generous annual leave entitlement.
The Disclosure & Barring Service Check requirement for this post is: Enhanced Child & Adult Check
Plymouth City Council is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation.
As part of our commitment to promoting equality we offer guaranteed interviews to those who meet the essential criteria and are considered disabled, have been in Plymouth City Council care or are an Armed Forces Service Leaver within the last two years.
For more information please email Jane Baines on
[email protected]Closing date: Thursday 21 August 2025
