Team Manager

What will you be doing?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Team Manager in Disabled Children’s Team East. The team is based at Green Banks Multi-Agency Service Hub in Margate and supports disabled children up to the age of 18.

Our team consists of Senior Practitioners, Social Workers and Social Work Assistants who work closely with our colleagues in Disabled Young People's Teams, a range of teams within the Kent County Council and other key agencies, such as Health, Education and the voluntary sector.

You will be highly motivated and demonstrate excellent social work knowledge, skills and values to deliver the highest quality service to disabled children, their families and carers. Experience in Children’s Services is essential, including child protection and children in care. You will need to demonstrate excellent managerial skills and be able to support and challenge professionals effectively.

You will be a role model for good practice and champion for your area of expertise, you will set performance expectations, managing and mentoring a team of Senior Practitioners, Social Workers and Social Work Assistants.

You will need to be Social Work England registered with a Social Work degree. You should have extensive post qualification experience, including experience of supervising staff and in-depth knowledge of legislation, policy and practice relating to Children including detailed working knowledge of Children’s safeguarding processes.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is considered by Kent County Council to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will take place on 9th February 2026.

About you

For further details about the role please contact -

Dawn Morris, Service Manager 03000 412197

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.