Children's TM - Family Help Team - Enfield

Caritas Recruitment Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Caritas Recruitment Limited is seeking an experienced Children’s Team Manager for a Family Help Team in Enfield. You will lead social workers and support staff, ensuring timely assessments and purposeful plans that prioritise safeguarding and child-centred outcomes.

You will provide professional leadership, supervise practice, and coordinate with education, health, police, and community partners to deliver responsive, rights-based support while driving continuous improvement and staff

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered social worker with substantial experience in children’s social care.
• Experience in management or supervision of practitioners.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, child protection, contextual risks, family support and the Public Law Outline.
• Ability to meet safeguarding and employment checks.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of social workers and support professionals to deliver effective, strengths-based services to children, young people and their families.
• Oversee casework from assessment through to review and closure, ensuring safeguarding and positive outcomes.
• Manage workload and performance, and quality assure assessments and plans.
• Coordinate multi-agency work with education, health, police, early help and community partners to respond appropriately to risk.
• Ensure practice complies with relevant legislation, statutory guidance and local procedures.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Safeguarding

Communication

Partnership working

Decision making

Team motivation

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Children’s Team Manager to join a Family Help Team in Enfield. This role will involve leading a dedicated group of social workers and support professionals to deliver effective, strengths-based services to children, young people and their families.

You will provide professional leadership, supervision and guidance to the team, ensuring that children’s needs are assessed promptly and that plans are purposeful, proportionate and focused on achieving positive outcomes. You will oversee casework from assessment through to review and closure, maintaining a clear focus on safeguarding, permanency and the child’s voice.

Key responsibilities will include managing workload and performance, quality assuring assessments and plans, contributing to complex decision-making, and ensuring that practice complies with relevant legislation, statutory guidance and local procedures. You will work closely with education, health, police, early help and community partners to coordinate effective multi-agency support and respond appropriately to risk.

The successful candidate will be a qualified and registered social worker with substantial experience in children’s social care, including the management or supervision of practitioners. You will have a strong understanding of safeguarding, child protection, contextual risks, family support and the Public Law Outline. Experience of working within a family help, early intervention or statutory children’s services setting would be highly beneficial.

You will be a confident and reflective leader with excellent communication, organisation and decision-making skills. The ability to motivate staff, promote strengths-based practice and manage challenging situations calmly is essential. You should be committed to continuous improvement, purposeful partnership working and ensuring that children and families receive respectful, responsive and outcome-focused support.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to improving services for children and families while supporting the development of a skilled and collaborative professional team. A relevant social work qualification, current professional registration and the ability to meet safeguarding and employment checks are required.