Team Manager – Social Work with Families – Children – Croydon Council
Salary: Grade 16 (£58,692 - £60,819)
Permanent – 36 hours per weekWelcome Payment - £10,000Retention Payment – £5,000
Hybrid working
Job Purpose
We are seeking a qualified and experienced Team Manager to join us and support our extremely talented team of Social Workers to driving the service forward. You will lead and manage performance of a team and foster a culture of continuous learning and reflection of practice that inspires staff to give their best in their roles.
The responsibilities include the following, so we ask that you have this experience:
Direct work with children and families to achieve desired safety and well-being outcomes.
Accountable to the Service Manager and Head of Service for the performance of the team
Managing the team’s duty system
Managing the day-to-day operational duties of social workers in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in accordance with our statutory duties.
Ensure the delivery of services in line with the council polices, government policy, legislation, and department procedures.
Provide leadership in delivering and implementing changes in structure, policies, and procedure.
Effective communication with senior managers on activities and inform of any issues affecting delivery of service.
Effective use of data to manage service delivery and performance
Hold responsibility for delivery of the Key performance targets of the team
Support the Service Manage budgets and expenditure to ensure appropriate uses of our financial resources.
Ensure effective working relationships with our agency partners and other relevant services within the Local AuthorityThe role will involve a strengths-based approach whilst using a range of systemic ideas in your work, including promoting a practice philosophy which seeks to empower service users, build on individual strengths, and develop strategies which support them to understand, manage and respond to risk.
Essential Requirements
Qualified Social Workers who are Social Work England registeredWorking knowledge of national policy, strategy and developments regarding children’s social care, and areas that impact on children’s social care.Able to lead improvement in social work practice at an operational level through effective performance managementEvidence of leading and managing operational change effectivelyAble 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.Experience of managing and/or supervising childcare social workers in an area relevant to this particular service area with evidenced results of continuing practice and good outcomes for children.
Home to 94,000 children, Croydon is a truly unique place to practice social work. We are a borough with big ambition, grit, and determination. Children's social care was judged ‘good’ in our last Ofsted inspection.
Our systemic practice framework places emphasis on relationships as key to supporting change for families. We make sense of the world through relationships, focusing on the whole family system and thinking about our own part in that too – what we bring, our own family stories and beliefs, how we use ourselves in the work that we do. Our practice model is all about collaboration - with our families, networks and partners; being open to challenge and ensuring our practitioners are highly trained in a variety of intervention approaches. Our established clinical service will support you to grow your own systemic practice within the service, providing accredited training, co-working and direct work with families.
For an informal chat about working in Croydon, contact Agata Stolowska at agata.stolowska@croydon.gov.uk