Team Leader - Children with Disabilities

Job Description

Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.

This job is workstyle 3 - Flexi.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations including working from council buildings and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and compassionate Team Leader to lead our Children with Disabilities Social Work Team. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled social work professional to provide strong leadership, drive positive outcomes, and ensure high-quality services for children and young people with disabilities and their families.

As Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in supporting a dedicated team of staff, ensuring that children and families receive timely, person-centred and strengths-based interventions that promote safety, wellbeing and inclusion.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Please note interviews will be held Friday, 20 November 2026.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs\_and\_training/working\_for\_angus\_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.