Family Early Help Team Manager (FTC)

The role

Are you ready to lead a team of skilled early help practitioners deliver outstanding services for children and families in Southwark?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you!

About the Role:

Our Family Early Help Service is seeking a Team Manager to join us on a part time (18 hours per week), 10-month fixed term contract and help play a key role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families within the borough.

In this role, you will:

• Lead with Excellence: Provide exemplary leadership, management and professional guidance to a team of early help practitioners, both individually and within their team.
• Deliver Outstanding Services: Ensure our Family Early Help Service provides 'outstanding' support, with high-quality, integrated and systemically informed practices that address the needs of families where children are at risk of poor outcomes. You will drive early intervention efforts to improve impact, engage families more effectively, and prevent escalation.
• Oversee Complex Casework: Support the ongoing progress of families transitioning from statutory social work, overseeing complex casework to ensure successful outcomes.
• Promote Best Practices: Foster excellent early help practices, including assessing needs, planning purposefully, and working collaboratively with families, support networks, and other professionals to prevent the need for higher levels of statutory intervention. You'll safeguard children and promote positive outcomes.
• Responsive, Relationship-Based Service: Ensure that our early help service is both relationship-based and responsive to the needs of children and families, delivered in a timely manner and within service or statutory guidelines.
• Develop Practitioners: Lead the development of skilled and confident early help practitioners, promoting a high standard of practice within the team.

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert.

Contact Information:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Shane Steere-Jones via email at shane.steere-

Recruitment timetable

Advert close date: 11:59pm on 9 April 2025

Shortlisting date: 17 April 2024

Interview date: 25 April 2025

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

* Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
* Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
* If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Additional details

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Enhanced level.

This role is a 10 month fixed term, part time 18 hour per week position.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.