Team Manager - DBIT Core Service, North Essex

Team Manager - DBIT Core Service, North Essex

Fixed Term, Full Time

£55,892 to £69,241 per annum

Location: Colchester

Working Style: Fixed-base worker

Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for up to 6 months.

An exciting opportunity has risen for a Team Manager 6 months secondment in the DBIT North team. The Divisional Based Intervention Team (DBIT) Core Service is a countywide edge of care secondary service comprising of four quadrant-based teams. Each of these teams work closely with referring teams in the area focussing on whole family work where a child/ren is/are at risk of a reactive care episode due to relationship breakdown or other complex circumstances for families. The service works with children of 8 years old and above, and their families and use primarily a Solution Focused Approach as their methodology of intervention.

The Opportunity

The role is pivotal in guiding, supporting and nurturing high quality Solution Focused intervention work within the team and across the service. Your role includes working across the quadrant and county with colleagues, partners and families to ensure families receive the support they require to protect children from harm, to develop their well-being and help families stay together when safe and possible to do so.

Working as part of a highly supportive team to ensure all practitioners’ well-being is high on the agenda, ensuring families receive the service at the right level and that interventions are proportionate and promote desired change. To support this the team manager is expected to be in the office a minimum of 3-4 days per week.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Degree in Social Work, CQSW, CSS or equivalent
• Registration with Social Work England as registered Social Worker
• Previous Experience of:
  • Delivery of services in Children’s Social Care
  • People Management
  • Resource planning and management
  • Quality assurance and customer care
  • Achieving person centred outcomes
• Work with complex statistical, financial and performance information
• Policy development and change management
• Experience of working in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross organisational perspective
• Required to work flexibly as required, including evenings and weekends if necessary.
• You will be committed to Solution Focused, systemic, relationship based social work, providing effective, innovative interventions and with the ability to build good partnerships, both with our external partners and within the organisation.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 23^rd July 2026 at Rowan House, Colchester.

To read more about our business area, please visit: Children & Families

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The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

Why Essex?

As one of the largest and most dynamic UK local authorities, Essex offers a stimulating public service environment. Covering over 1,420 square miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we’re committed to transformational change and delivering better quality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for productivity, we ensure everyone matters in Everyone's Essex. With flexible working options and a focus on innovation, whether you are looking to develop your career or contribute to the local community, Essex is the ideal place for you.

In March 2026, the Government announced that councils in Greater Essex will be reorganised into five new unitary authorities from April 2028. In addition to this, Greater Essex has been accepted on to the devolution priority programme, where we will work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority. You can read more about these changes, and what this may mean for this role, on our careers site.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once you’ve secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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