Team Manager - Family Help

Role: Team Manager - Family Help

Department: Children, Families & Education

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Team Manager - Family Help on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their Children, Families & Education department.

Main purpose of position:

To lead and manage the Family Help Team aimed at supporting the best possible outcomes for children and young people. The team will consist of social workers, family help practitioners, psychologists, police community support officers, attendance support officers, speech and language therapists,

As a Team Manager - Family Help you will be responsible to:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the team providing a social work service of assessment, care planning, child protection.
• Provide specialist intervention services throughout Luton in line with statutory provision of social work service.
• Take responsibility for their own development and that of the overall team providing specific coaching guidance and mentoring of the Consultant Social Worker and keep up to date with new and relevant legislation.
• Recruit, motivate, train and develop staff within Council procedures ,Undertake development activities required for own development and experience e.g. court work, child protection, adoption and fostering.
• Manage projects in specialised and complex areas in line with departmental strategic objectives.
• Ensure the delivery of an effective service to local people by maintaining high standards of professional practice and adopting a positive approach to the full involvement of service.

Skills and Experience

• Substantial experience in a social care field with a particular emphasis on Family Help, Safeguarding and Child Protection.
• In-depth experience of complex decision making in children's social care services on child protection and statutory case work.
• Able to manage, motivate and develop a social services team, effectively achieving high levels of performance from staff and presenting the service and department.
• In-depth communication skills, including producing complex reports.
• Able to make sound professional judgements including high risk issues about children, parents, families and carers.
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of equality issues and legislation and the ability to integrate equality policies into strategies and service delivery.

DBS

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for Disclosure and Barring Service checks to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any convictions, bind overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Exemptions) (Amendments) Order 1986. Therefore, applications are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent' under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being take-up, any failure to disclose such convictions will results in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. The fact that a bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

About Us

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for several years.

We are an equal opportunities employment agency and business that positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Connect2Luton is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Luton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.