View Vacancy -- Team Manager - Safeguarding Team

About Haringey

We are investing in creating a better borough for all our residents and bettering the lives of children and young people in Haringey is our first corporate priority. We are located in the north of the capital with a population of approximately 250,000 people and a growing population of 0-19-year olds. We are a diverse and fast-changing borough and tomorrow’s leaders; artists and innovators are busy growing up here.

Haringey is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as we strive for excellence in all we do.

In short, we’re a council with high ambitions; a place to work that is full of energy and focus. Our teams have passion, integrity and commitment, and people join us, do so as they see Haringey is a learning organisation, and the people that work here strive for continuous improvement in their practice, aiming high to ensure we provide outstanding outcomes for our children.

We offer a great place to develop a career that is yours to own.

About You

You will be a qualified social worker with a minimum of 5 years’ post qualifying experience, preferably in a similar setting.  You will have previous experience managing social workers but experience as a team manager within children’s social care is desirable.  You will be highly organised and able to deliver to deadlines, and able to work independently whilst maintaining a team and whole service focus.  Your knowledge and understanding of complex child safeguarding, alongside your strong grasp of relevant legislation will be second to none.  You will have strong verbal and nonverbal communication skills.  Thus, you will be confident chairing complex multiagency meetings strategy and professional meetings where required.  You will have evidence of ongoing professional development, as well as either experience or a sound understanding of social worker supervision, change and budget management. 

You will be responsible for the day to day management of the work allocated to your team, ensuring that this is completed to the highest standards and with the child’s welfare central to decision making.  You will develop your team members by ensuring they receive regular, reflective case and personal supervision, and that service and corporate priorities are met.    You will ensure that Human Resource policies and procedures are adhered to, including robustly and effectively addressing any performance, capability, sickness absence or similar issues.  In all cases, you will ensure that concise and accurate records of your management decision making, and direction is evidenced and communicated.

Above all, you will be committed to assisting the service to ensure that we are a forward thinking, responsive service which meets the diverse needs children, young people and their families in Haringey,  by contributing to service and departmental strategies, policies and procedures.

Closing Date: Sunday 20th September 2020