In this role you will be part of a stable senior management team and be given the time and freedom you need to implement new ideas and keep Ealing’s children at the heart of what you do.
We are a borough of innovation, and we are always improving on what we have learned about children’s issues and our services.
Our relationship-based approach to practice focusses on the voice of the child, and we are relentless in our ambition to deliver stable loving homes for all of our children who require care.
If you are experienced in leading teams to deliver services that provide high quality care for children, we welcome your application.
The role
In this senior role, you will lead a team of team managers across Fostering, Court, and services for Children in Care to provide a comprehensive, consistent, timely, quality and effective service to children and families
Ensuring that assessments are carried out, are appropriate, planned, delivered and reviewed to meet the assessed need
Ensuring that an appropriate emergency response is available to meet unplanned high-risk need
Effective management of a staffing budget
Participate in the overall management of the service as part of the Children and Families senior management group, including ensuring effective business planning within a multi-agency partnership framework in relation to strategic planning and service delivery.
Act as a key leader and enterprising innovator to ensure delivery of new service models and/or ways of working within budgetary constraints.
About you
You will have substantial experience as a team manager, or previous experience at Head of Service level
You will have the ability to provide expert advice to staff on care planning, support and interventions for looked after children and for young people leaving care
You will have professional or management experience within multi-agency teams providing services in the areas of Public Law Outline Court work, Fostering, Kinship and Children in Care.
To succeed in this role, you must have:
A professional social work qualification: CQSW, DipSW, CCETSW approved equivalent, social work degree
Social Work England registration
Experience of leading and managing a group of multi-disciplinary teams
Experience of managing performance, conduct and professional practice of others
Experience of conflict resolution and decision making in a demanding and highly sensitive environment
Knowledge and understanding of the research and evidence base for new and innovative ways of working.
To find out more about this post contact Joanne Dempster on 020 8825 9430 for an informal discussion.
More than 360,000 people call Ealing home. Our seven towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell Northolt, Perivale and Southall - are diverse, vibrant and lively communities where over 170 languages are spoken. We will enable you to do the work you care deeply about, and our aim is to deliver the infrastructure that allows that to happen.
Ealing is a great place to come and develop your career. You will be supported in this by colleagues and managers who will provide you with the opportunities to grow, gain experience, confidence and become a reflective practitioner.
Ealing is a richly diverse borough and we benefit from close ties to our communities which enriches our work and continually improves our offer. We are alive to the pressures many of our families are facing and work creatively with families and partners to bring about changes which makes the work that much more energising.
We recognise that to recruit and retain the very best social workers and social care practitioners, we need to bring together all our learning and development opportunities into one place. That’s why we have launched the Ealing Social Care Academy. The academy helps our team connect, collaborate, and engage creatively with internal and external partners and service users.
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More directly we can offer you:
Manageable caseloads
Clear career progression pathways
Opportunities to develop and experience different areas of work
Competitive remuneration packages
A hybrid approach to working that increases your work / life balance
If you want to find out about this opportunity, please contact our Recruitment lead, Caroline Horsley at: HorsleyC@ealing.gov.uk