Early Help Manager

Moonfire Technology; London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in East London is seeking an Early Help Manager for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role focuses on managing a locality team, ensuring effective support for children and families through multi-agency collaboration. Candidates should have a recognized social work qualification and experience in delivering Early Help principles. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing caseloads and delivering Early Help principles.
• Recognised qualification in social work or equivalent.
• Ability to build effective multi-agency relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage caseloads for a locality team of Early Help Practitioners.
• Ensure qualitative assessments and family plans are delivered.
• Build relationships with locality partners to improve outcomes.

Skills

Early Help principles

Multi-agency collaboration

Family support

Education

Recognised Social Work Qualification

Youth work qualification

Teaching qualification

Probation qualification

Therapeutic qualification

Job description

Job Description
Early Help Manager

This role is a fixed-term contract for 12 months

Starting salary of £52,584 - £55,620

The closing date for applications is 01/06/25. Please note, interest may be high, and we reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

Notification of application success will be given. We aim to shortlist by W/B 02/06/25 and schedule interviews between 09/06/25 and 27/06/25. Thank you for your interest.

We are Newham

We are a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich East London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We offer a challenging yet rewarding work environment, with strong networks to support you in making a real difference to children and families. Our social care services are rated GOOD overall by Ofsted, with leadership rated OUTSTANDING, and we continuously strive to improve.

We are working to establish a Centre of Excellence for Children’s Services through investment, co-production, and development of our 'Circles of Support' practice model, which focuses on systemic and restorative practices and a specialist support offer for Practitioners. Ofsted describes Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development, and we invite you to learn and grow with us.

About the job

We seek an experienced Manager with line management and supervisory responsibilities, capable of managing caseloads for a locality team of Early Help and Senior Early Help Practitioners. The role involves ensuring qualitative assessments, family plans, and focused interventions are delivered in line with Early Help pathways and methodologies, including multi-systemic principles and social learning theory. Building effective multi-agency relationships with locality partners to improve outcomes for children and families through a team around the family model that adheres to ‘one family one plan’ principles.

Applicants should be experienced in delivering Early Help principles. Given the evolving context of Family Help, wrap-around multi-disciplinary family support, and alignment with targeted Early Help and Child in Need (Section 17), we particularly welcome candidates with a recognised Social Work Qualification & Registration with Social Work England, or equivalent qualifications such as youth work, teaching, probation, or therapeutic backgrounds, as specified in the person specification.

For more details and to prepare your application, please see the JD here.

For informal discussions about the role, contact Fran Craven or Dawn Henry.

About Us

Our Early Help and Prevention Services in Newham are transforming to provide timely, joined-up support to children and families.

Our primary aims are early detection of needs, offering ‘the right support at the right time’ to prevent escalation, and supporting families to avoid crises through early intervention, targeted support, and safety planning.

We adopt a Lead Practitioner role, delivering purposeful targeted interventions aimed at reducing referrals to child protection services and improving children’s long-term outcomes in health, education, emotional wellbeing, and community safety.

Our targeted Early Help Service will comprise four teams, each led by an Early Help Manager and including Early Help and Senior Early Help Practitioners, aligned with Newham’s four locality Family Hubs networks.

Family Hubs provide universal services from conception to age 18 (up to 25 with additional needs), supporting child development and parental support at each stage.

Changes within Early Help will align with the wider Family Help model and Families First Partnership reforms (March 2025).

We are recruiting for multiple positions in Early Help. Please view the JD here.

Important: If you are a current LBN staff applying as a secondment, approval from your current employer is required. Please inform your line manager before applying.

Additional Information

We are committed to an inclusive, anti-racist environment. Applications are considered based on merit, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity, or sexual orientation. If you share our values and bring the required skills, we welcome your application.

The London Borough of Newham is a safeguarding employer. Roles involving working with children, young people, or vulnerable adults require a DBS check.

Please attach a supporting statement (max two A4 pages) explaining how you meet the role criteria.

We practice anonymised recruitment. Remove all personal details from uploaded documents.

Your data will be shared with Cifas for fraud prevention, identity verification, and safeguarding purposes. Further information is available at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

The London Borough of Newham is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates declaring a disability and meeting essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Priority consideration is given to London Borough of Newham Redeployees.