Role: Group Manager
Division: Supporting Families Division
Service: Throughcare Service (TCS)
Salary: Grade M - £59,220 to £62,457 per annum plus retention allowance of £5,020 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Location: St Mary’s Church Hall, Kitcat Terrace, Bow E3
About the role:
The Group Manager for TCS will be responsible for directly managing 5 Team Managers and the Leaving Care Coordinator, as well as oversight of their staff. You will be joining the Service at an exciting time as we continue to strengthen our practice and expand our ambitions. We remain ambitious to continue to build on the progress of our 2019 Ofsted Inspection, 2022 Ofsted Focused Visit, and 2023 Peer Review. Alongside this and together with the Head of Service, you will be responsible for leading our focus and response to the new inspection criteria for services to care leavers, ensuring previous momentum is maintained and support our journey in getting from Good to Outstanding.
TCS consists of 5 Teams and works with children in care from age 16, or who enter care after this time, up to until they turn 25. This will include all unaccompanied minors (UASC) who enter the Local Authority’s care. The service prepares young people to leave our care by working to ensure that they have skills for independent living, which may include ensuring they are either in employment, education, or training and are in suitable accommodation. Each TCS team is led by a Team Manager and has up to 6 practitioners, who will be a mix of Advanced Practitioners, Social Workers, and Personal Advisors. All children and young people under 18 are allocated to a Registered Social Worker, whilst over-18’s will usually be allocated a Personal Advisor.
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bout you
As a Group Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the principles and objectives of the service are delivered operationally, and you will contribute to the senior management strategic vision for achieving excellent and lasting outcomes for the children we care for and care experienced young people.
The successful candidate will need to have substantial post qualifying management experience, experience of providing social work and personal advisor supervision and support, and demonstrate a sound understanding of the legal and practice frameworks for services to children looked after and care leavers, threshold decision making, volume management, budgetary management, and quality assurance. This will include the evolving local, regional, and national contexts in which these services operate to include responses to recent independent reviews.
Requirements
Experience of managing similar services.
Working knowledge of the legislative framework within which the service operates, inclusive of regulation, national guidance and procedures specific to this post.
Thorough understanding of quality assurance an ability to integrate this understanding into practice.
A nationally recognised or other Social Work England (SWE) recognised social work qualification. Current SWE registration will be a condition of appointment to the post.
Substantial team management experience in the children and families field.
Experience of working as a practitioner and manager within a multicultural environment which provides services to a variety of disadvantaged groups.
A commitment to working transparently; in partnership with children, young people, families, and partner agencies.
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Tower Hamlets offers the best of London in one borough.
We believe the best place for children is to be raised within their own families, immediate or wider, wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so. Social Workers are at the core of our work with children and families. Our approach is about enabling social workers to build relationships and strengthen families by working with people in a compassionate and understanding way.
We are determined to continue our journey of improvement and deliver outstanding services for children and families of Tower Hamlets, and our offer to staff includes:
The opportunity to work in a richly diverse, challenging and supportive inner London Borough
Competitive remuneration package
Investing in the workforce with end-to-end career support
A manageable and diverse caseload and good quality reflective supervision
Steps to Success, coaching, and bespoke learning and development support from the Learning Academy to develop your practice, with a clear framework for career development and progression into leadership.
Travel card/season ticket loan, Cycle to Work scheme, Local Government Pension Scheme
Opportunities for agile/flexible working
Discounted gym membership, access to free eye test, rent deposit scheme and & You at Work discounts as well as many other benefits
Generous annual leave package and wellbeing service
Smarter Working with new modern technology
If you have any questions about applying for this role, please contact Saima Tahsin, Project Officer at Saima.Tahsin@towerhamlets.gov.uk. For an informal discussion about working in Supporting Families at Tower Hamlets please contact Sam Nair, our Principal Social Worker at Sam.Nair@towerhamets.gov.uk