Early Help Team Manager

Salary range: Grade 16 (£62,574 - £64,839 p.a.)
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon

TEAM MANAGER - EARLY HELP

The Team Manager will take operational responsibility for a team of social workers delivering Council’s statutory responsibilities for children in respect of:

The assessment and care planning of children in need, including those in need of protection and subject to legal proceedings
Direct work with children and families to achieve desired safety and well-being outcomes.
Promoting the achievement of permanence by looked after children and care leavers through assessment and care / permanence planning up to the second statutory review.

The Team Manager will take operational responsibility for a team of Social Workers in respect of:

Qualified and registered Social Worker who is Social Work England registered
Able to lead improvement in social work practice at an operational level through effective performance management
Evidence of leading and managing operational change effectively.
Able to lead and manage in an operational area dealing with high risk and high complexity in a way that delivers good safeguarding and well-being outcomes for children and families.
Able to apply and use effectively at operational level outcomes-based quality assurance frameworks.