Team Manager – Children Disabilities Team

Overview

In this role you lead the Children’s Disabilities Team within Dudley MBC, ensuring high‑quality social care for children with disabilities and their families. You will provide strong leadership, oversee complex decision‑making, and promote integrated working across SEND, health and education. You will drive service development, safeguard outcomes, and champion restorative, child‑friendly practice. You’ll shape pathways to independence into adulthood while ensuring children and families voices inform every decision. This is a mission‑critical opportunity to influence outcomes at scale and foster inclusive, outcome‑driven services.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong team leadership and supervision to ensure excellent practice
• Oversee complex decision‑making and safeguarding processes
• Champion integrated working across SEND, health and education
• Ensure performance oversight and quality assurance of services
• Drive service development and resource management
• Promote independence pathways into adulthood for children and young people
• Incorporate the voices of children and families into service design and delivery

Key requirements

• Experience leading or managing services in children’s social care / disabilities

• leadership
• communication
• partnership working
• child protection and safeguarding governance
• performance oversight and quality assurance
• restorative, child‑centred approaches

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