Team Manager – Specialist Fostering Team | 10083 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £50,166 to £54,277 per annum | Grade L | County Hall

Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Services

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead a brand-new Specialist Fostering Team at a time of significant investment and ambition within Norfolk’s Fostering Service.

We have secured substantial funding to elevate and strengthen our practical and therapeutic offer for children and their foster families. We are now looking for an experienced, values‑driven Team Manager to design, develop and lead this innovative team from the outset.

The Specialist Fostering Team will play a key role in supporting foster carers of all levels of experience and skill sets, specialising in a variety of contexts, including those who benefit from enhanced and specialist fostering support. You will lead a multidisciplinary team including specialist Supervising Social Workers, Carer Support Workers, an Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner and a Mockingbird Liaison Officer, ensuring carers receive proactive, relationship‑based and trauma‑informed support tailored to each child’s needs.

A core part of the role is embedding and developing specialist models of practice, including Community of Practice hubs for carers of children with disabilities and adolescents, the Mockingbird programme, Consultant Foster Carers, enhanced matching processes for carers of children with disabilities and additional needs, and peer‑led support networks. This work will strengthen stability for children, reduce isolation for foster carers and build confident, connected fostering families.

This role offers genuine scope to shape practice, influence service development and lead innovation, while maintaining a strong focus on quality, safeguarding and outcomes. You will work closely with partners across Children’s Services and beyond, contributing to local sufficiency priorities and our shared ambition for children to flourish within their foster families.

If you are motivated by building something new, leading skilled and passionate professionals, and improving the experiences of children and foster families, this role offers a unique and rewarding leadership opportunity.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement 
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependant on your job role and business need. 
• Financial benefits such as:
  • ‘Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.   
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.

  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)

  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.  

Redeployment closing date: 18 March 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 25 March 2026 at 23:55

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