Team Manager – Post Order Support Team – Family & Friends – Croydon Council
Salary: Grade 16 £58,692 - £60,819
Permanent – 36 hours per week
Hybrid working
Job Purpose
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Post Order Support team in Croydon. As the team manager, you will be responsible for managing both the Post Order Support and the Private Fostering Teams to develop and deliver high quality support to children, young people and their families subject to a special guardianship orders in line with the appropriate regulatory and legal frameworks, building on the progress already made in achieving the Ofsted judgement of GOOD in October 2024.
You will be pivotal in maintaining collaborative working relationships with colleagues within the Safeguarding partnership, and partner agencies to ensure that services are developed and delivered to meet the needs of families within the context of the Kinship Strategy agenda.
You will be joining a highly motivated and skilled team of practitioners and managers who aspire to deliver outstanding support to families and to developing and delivering services in line with learning from research, feedback and best practice models.
Essential Requirements
We are looking for confident Team Managers, who are:
Social Worker qualified and registered with Social Work England.
Able to lead improvement in social work practice at an operational level through effective performance management and quality assurance.
Management experience in Family & Friends Service (desirable)
Experience of managing and supervising social workers, developing practice and delivering good outcomes for children and young people.
Home to 94,000 children, Croydon is a truly unique place to practice social work. We are a borough with big ambition, grit, and determination. Children's social care was judged ‘good’ in our last Ofsted inspection.
Our systemic practice framework places emphasis on relationships as key to supporting change for families. We make sense of the world through relationships, focusing on the whole family system and thinking about our own part in that too – what we bring, our own family stories and beliefs, how we use ourselves in the work that we do. Our practice model is all about collaboration - with our families, networks and partners; being open to challenge and ensuring our practitioners are highly trained in a variety of intervention approaches. Our established clinical service will support you to grow your own systemic practice within the service, providing accredited training, co-working and direct work with families.
For an informal chat about working in Croydon, contact Agata Stolowska at agata.stolowska@croydon.gov.uk