Team Manager
- Salary range:£55,620
- Possalaryto£61,421
- Contract Type:Permanent
- Directorate:Children and Young People
- Pay Grade:14
- Weekly Hours:37
All about the Role
As a Team Manager at Clare Lodge Secure Children's Home, you will play a key leadership role in ensuring the safe, effective, and high-quality delivery of care for children within a secure environment. Working alongside the Registered Manager, you will support the day-to-day running of the home, ensuring practice is aligned with statutory regulations, inspection frameworks, and trauma-informed principles.
You will lead and manage a team of either operational or case management staff, providing regular supervision, performance oversight, and support to maintain high professional standards and staff wellbeing.
The role involves strong oversight of safeguarding, care planning, and frontline practice—ensuring that all plans, risk assessments, and records are robust, up to date, and consistently implemented to promote positive outcomes for children. Working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners, including education, health, and social care professionals, you will help deliver integrated, child-centred services.
You will contribute to quality assurance processes, audits, and inspection readiness, ensuring that all areas of responsibility remain compliant and evidence-led at all times.
In addition, you will support operational delivery through effective resource management, rota oversight, and participation in admissions and placement processes, while being prepared to step into senior roles when required to maintain continuity of leadership.
All about our Team
Our team at Clare Lodge is a committed, multi-disciplinary group of professionals dedicated to delivering safe, high-quality care for children within a secure setting. We work collaboratively across care, case management, education, health, and support services to provide a fully integrated, child-centred approach.
The team is focused on creating a consistent, trauma-informed environment where children's safety, wellbeing, and development are at the heart of everything we do. Staff are supported through strong leadership, regular supervision, and a shared commitment to high professional standards and continuous improvement.
Working in partnership with external agencies and internal specialist teams, we strive to ensure that each child receives coordinated support, meaningful participation opportunities, and the best possible outcomes during their time at Clare Lodge.
All about You
You will be an experienced and confident leader with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality care within a secure and regulated environment. You will bring a clear understanding of safeguarding, risk management, and trauma-informed practice, and be able to apply this consistently in day-to-day decision-making.
You will have the ability to lead and motivate others, providing clear direction, effective supervision, and constructive challenge to support staff performance, wellbeing, and professional development. You will be organised, resilient, and able to manage competing priorities while maintaining a visible and consistent leadership presence within the Home.
You will demonstrate strong communication and partnership skills, working effectively with colleagues, external professionals, and multi-agency partners to ensure coordinated, child-centred care.
Above all, you will be committed to achieving positive outcomes for children, maintaining high professional standards, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues and have developed a number of benefits in addition to our generous annual leave starting at 25 days + bank holidays, sick pay and local government pension scheme…
- Access to a range of benefits via our Employee Benefits Platform, including in-store and online discounts as well as our Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics schemes
- Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro-rata)
- Access to car lease scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared Cost AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to our equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards
Our Commitments
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to fostering diversity, advancing equity, and building an inclusive workplace for everyone. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage those from underrepresented groups, including disabled people, care leavers, and individuals from minority ethnic communities. Your unique perspectives and experiences are encouraged and valued and will play a vital role in our success.
We are committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible. If you are a person who has or considers yourself to have a disability and you require reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process, please contact pccrecruitment@peterborough.gov.uk.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you've already applied and completed the recruitment process for this position within the last three months, there's no need to reapply. We really appreciate your interest and thank you for considering us.
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Clare Lodge
8 Lincoln Road, Glinton, Northborough, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK, PE6 7AW
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Becky Pates
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Job benefits
Employee benefits platform
Access to a range of benefits, including in-store and online discounts as well as our Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics schemes.
Annual Leave Buying
Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro-rata).
Car Lease Scheme
Access to car lease scheme.
Bank Holiday Flexibility
Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
Shared Cost AVCs
Make Additional Voluntarily Contributions to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
Learning & Development
Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships to support your personal and professional growth.
Volunteer Leave
Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
Employee Recognition Awards
Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards.
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