The Turnaround Project is a newly funded project by the Ministry of Justice from 2022-2025. The Primary aim to provide young people aged 10-18 with positive opportunities that prevent them from offending and ensure that children on the cusp of the Criminal Justice System are offered a needs assessment and subsequent support. Diverting children away from the Criminal Justice System in the long term leads to a reduction in offending. Crucial to achieving this is children and their families having accessible support and intervention at the early onset of challenging circumstances.
As the leader of the Rapid Response team, the Team Manager will deliver intensive, restorative supervision to colleagues, focusing on improving outcomes for young people by responding to families impacted by extra-familial harm at the point of need in a timely and effective way that reduces the need for children and young people to come into local authority care, improve family resilience and connections and reduce the need for high cost placements. Our Team Managers are looking to lead positive change and enable families to remain together.
Team Managers play a vital role in supporting our Newham Together vision by ensuring that our social workers feel supported and that high quality systemic practice is delivered to children and families. Team Managers are expected to show strong but compassionate leadership and create a secure team environment of open discussion/challenge whilst allowing restorative work to flourish.
Reporting to the Service Manager, depending which part of the service a TM leads in, they could be line managing Social Workers, Family Coaches, Family Group Conference Coordinators and Senior Social Workers – as well as specialist positions such as our Child Exploitation and Missing Coordinator. There is an Assistant Team Manger in the service to share managerial duties.
For more information and a full list of duties please download the job description.
We're looking for resilient, experienced Team Managers who are passionate about improving children and young people’s lives. You pride yourself on supporting and developing people and practice, approaching management with energy and enthusiasm whilst always finding time to lend a sympathetic ear to the social workers in your team. You are an experienced systemic practitioner who takes a creative but pragmatic approach to practice, encouraging high standards in others for the residents that we serve. You’re happiest assisting and inspiring your team towards achieving their goals, stepping in where needed to achieve positive outcomes for our children and their families.
You have experience and an understanding of working within a diverse, urban community; and share our ambition and energy in embracing new ways of working. You have high working standards and are conscious of the importance of professional development for yourself and your team. You are always open to learning and to helping others learn so that children and families can benefit from our best practice.
We’re looking for Managers who have a genuine interest in a restorative, relationship based practice model drawing on systemic thinking to inform your approach to building effective relationships with children, families and communities. You already embrace our people-focused values and want to be an active part of our ‘Newham Together’ journey. You’re not afraid of change. You’re looking for a career defining role.
You are a qualified social worker, registered with Social Work England. We will consider applicants who are currently working at Assistant Team Manager and are looking to progress.
We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practise to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.
We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model; centring on systemic and restorative practice and a specialist support offer for our practitioners. Ofsted described Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development and we always try to develop talent in-house. We promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 alone, and have put more than 47 practitioners through further education since 2020. We value your development and at Newham career progression is a reality for many of our colleagues.
We understand that social work can be a challenging yet ultimately very rewarding profession that makes demands of you personally and professionally. In Newham we value your wellbeing and we aim to ensure that you have a better work/life balance through a remote working offer when you are not visiting children and families, a modern office space for when you’re on site, a flexible working policy where all requests are considered, and a clinical offer to support you to do your best work.
We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to practise social work:
