Team Manager (Children & Families)

ST HELENA GOVERNMENT; London; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government agency is seeking a Social Worker on St Helena Island, focusing on safeguarding children and enhancing social care services. The successful candidate will ensure compliance with UK standards, manage a team, and contribute to community capacity development. Benefits include relocation allowances, a competitive salary, and generous leave provisions.

Benefits

International Supplement

Relocation Allowances

Annual Pension Contribution of 7.5% of salary

Annual Leave of 30 days plus Public Holidays

Qualifications

• UK Qualified Social Worker with current registration.
• Experience managing children's safeguarding teams.
• Background in budget management and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop policies and procedures in line with St Helena legislation.
• Operational responsibility for the Children's Services Team.
• Facilitate CPD and develop succession plans.

Skills

Leadership

Safeguarding

Budget Management

Multi-agency Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Education

UK Qualified Social Worker

CQSW or DipSW or equivalent

Job description

Location: St Helena Island, South Atlantic

Contract: 3 years FTC available immediately

Salary: £48k pa, depending on experience and qualifications, plus International Supplement

Enjoying unique lifestyle opportunities, St Helena Island is a self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom. Although better placed to develop economically and socially as a result of opening our international airport in 2017, we are not at the stage of self-sufficiency and therefore remain dependent on UK government aid.

With a focus on vulnerable children and their families and guided by a new strategic framework for integrated social care services, you will ensure policy and procedures are developed in line with St Helena legislation and that practice standards adhere to UK expectations of social work practice. Contributing to the performance management process and identifying solutions for filling skill/capacity gaps, you will facilitate CPD and develop succession plans. You will have operational responsibility for the Children’s Services Team, which includes case work spanning early help, Child in Need, Child Protection and Look After Children.

A UK Qualified Social Worker, CQSW or DipSW or equivalent, you must have a current registration with the Health Care Professionals Council or equivalent and have Practice educator or equivalent qualification. Experience of managing/leading a children’s safeguarding team is essential. With experience of compliance in relation to inspectorates in the UK, you will have exercised leadership at this level. With a background in budget management, you will have led multi-agency forums, commissioning and providing care packages from a budget management perspective. This should be supported by experience in best interest decisions, adults safeguarding, mental capacity, deprivation of liberty, mental health, learning disabilities, older adults, palliative and end of life care, commissioning of care packages, and training. Your substantial practice experience in social work will have a significant element of safeguarding children and young people plus work with vulnerable adults, and skill in presenting advice and evidence in critical settings.

In addition, you must demonstrate our core values of fairness, integrity, and teamwork, and use your diverse expertise and experiences to ensure your time on the Island has the broadest benefit to St Helena. As an officer funded through the Technical Co-operation Programme, you will be expected to share your knowledge and skills beyond the workplace, contributing to workforce, community, and capacity development in St Helena.

Our Benefits Package Includes:

• An International Supplement, full details of which are in the Overseas Vacancy Information at our website.
• Relocation Allowances, full details of which are in the Overseas Vacancy Information on our website.
• Annual Pension Contribution of 7.5% of salary
• Annual Leave of 30 days per annum plus Public Holidays

How to Apply:

An application form is available at our website where further information can also be found, or you may contact Kedell Worboys on 0203 818 7610 or via email: [e-mail].

Applications must be sent to [e-mail] and received by 30 June 2025.

Interviews are planned for the week commencing 21 July 2025.

To be considered for this role, you must complete our application form. Failure to do so will mean that your application will not be considered. Please do not submit your CV.

The Public Service positively accepts applications from all members of the community regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, and will consider all applications on the basis of merit, in accordance with the person specification.