The Turnaround Project is a newly funded initiative from the Ministry of Justice running until summer 2025. The Primary aim is 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. 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 immediately at the point of need in a timely and effective way. The team is responsible for moving children and young people away from exploitation, crime and harm; this is the purpose of our work, leading positive change and enabling families to remain together.
The Team Manager is the key point of escalation in rapid response, making decisions, signing off referrals, closing cases and ensuring consistent thresholds are upheld. The Team manager will regularly liaise with partner agencies such as the MASH, police, schools, health; and will occasionally be required to cover direct work with families or step in (as a confident expert) where colleagues require support. The Team Manager will also keep an eye on data and the performance of the Turnaround project, being able to evidence the work of the team by presenting work as numerical data, in writing, and verbally in meetings.
Please note that we use a generic Job Description for our Team Manager posts – so if you have any further questions on the role please get in touch with Reset Service Manager: Michelle.Martin@newham.gov.uk.
We're looking for resilient, experienced Team Managers who are passionate about improving children and young people’s lives. You are an experienced 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 will have a professional background of working with children and young people who are at risk of exploitation & extra familial harm, in addition to experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting and managing teams of colleagues with different skill sets.
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 excited by the prospect of leading a grant funded project and the opportunity to shape how the team works and delivers.
You may be a social worker registered with Social Work England, or if you are alternatively qualified you will be able to demonstrate extensive experience in leading teams that work with children and young people at risk of exploitation and extra familial harm, with strong working knowledge of safeguarding and criminal justice procedures.
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:
