We are currently looking for Team Managers to join DCYPS, our social work service for children with disabilities and their families. This role leads statutory work that can change the lives of children and families impacted by SEND and you will spend the majority of your time supporting your team of social workers on challenging but highly rewarding cases. Supervision is vital in this service as many of our children have very complex needs; but you and your team can be genuine advocates for children who otherwise do not have a voice, and the team can improve long-term quality of life for children and families.
Team Managers play a key role in our Circles of Support by ensuring that our social workers feel supported and that high quality 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 systemic practice to flourish.
Team Managers in DCYPS lead teams of between 5-7 social workers, and may supervise newly qualified social workers or students.
For more information please contact Helen Cusick, DCYPS Service Manager: helen.cusick@newham.gov.uk
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 with experience working in teams focused on children and young people with disabilities. 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 already embrace our people-focused values and want to be an active part of Newham Circles of Support. You’re not afraid of change. You want a career defining role.
You are a qualified social work manager registered with Social Work England, who has built statutory social work management experience including working in teams focusing on children and young people with disabilities. 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 a firm understanding of the SEND code of practice and the challenges faced by families living with disability, and would be confident leading a team of practitioners towards life changing outcomes for our residents.
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.
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:
