Family Early Help Team Manager

Family Early Help Team Manager

Reference number: SC07043

Location: London

Schedule: Part-time

Salary Range: (Full time equivalent) - £52,674 - £59,772

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Are you ready to lead a team of skilled early help practitioners deliver outstanding services for children and families in Southwark?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you!

About the Role:

Our Family Early Help Service is seeking a Team Manager to join us on a part time (18 hours per week), 10-month fixed term contract and help play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families within the borough.

In this role, you will:

• Lead with Excellence: Provide exemplary leadership, management and professional guidance to a team of early help practitioners, both individually and within their team.
• Deliver Outstanding Services: Ensure our Family Early Help Service provides 'outstanding' support, with high-quality, integrated and systemically informed practices that address the needs of families where children are at risk of poor outcomes. You will drive early intervention efforts to improve impact, engage families more effectively, and prevent escalation.
• Oversee Complex Casework: Support the ongoing progress of families transitioning from statutory social work, overseeing complex casework to ensure successful outcomes.
• Promote Best Practices: Foster excellent early help practices, including assessing needs, planning purposefully, and working collaboratively with families, support networks, and other professionals to prevent the need for higher levels of statutory intervention. You'll safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.
• Responsive, Relationship-Based Service: Ensure that our early help service is both relationship-based and responsive to the needs of children and families, delivered in a timely manner and within service or statutory guidelines.
• Develop Practitioners: Lead the development of skilled and confident early help practitioners, promoting a high standard of practice within the team.

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert.

Contact Information:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Shane Steere-Jones via email at

Additional Details:

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Enhanced level.

This role is a 10 month fixed term, part time 18 hour per week position.

Benefits and more information:

Recruitment Timeline:

• Advert close date: 11:59pm on Sunday 1 December 2024.
• Shortlisting date: Friday 6 December 2024.
• Interview date: Wednesday 18 December 2024.

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the criteria below:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

Attachments

• Job Description & Person Specification - Early Help Team Manager