Team Manager - Early Help Team - Haringey - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Team Manager for their Early Help Team in Haringey. This role involves establishing and quality assuring early help assessments, developing family support, and providing professional guidance to other practitioners. A social work qualification and management experience are essential for this full-time position with a salary up to £59,328 per annum.

Qualifications

• Social work qualification or equivalent required.
• Understanding of relevant legislation essential.
• Experience managing practitioners to deliver excellent outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Establish and quality assure early help assessments and support plans.
• Develop family support work and evidence-based interventions.
• Manage and escalate cases in alignment with Haringey Guidance.

Skills

Management skills

Interpersonal communication

Assessment skills

Advocacy skills

Education

Social work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Early Help Team to work Full Time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager job is up to £59,328 per annum.

Responsibilities:

• Establish, embed, and quality assure the delivery of early help assessments and outcome-focused support plans with families and other professionals, which identify individual needs of all family members and family dynamics.
• Establish, embed, and quality assure whole family, multi-agency support plans that respond to the needs of families (and individual family members), providing tailored, timely, and sequenced interventions how and where they are needed.
• Develop, establish, and quality assure the delivery of family support work and evidence-based interventions with children, young people, and families through group work and one-to-one support.
• Ensure families are empowered to access services through support with calls and referral forms, accompaniment to service appointments, and advocacy on behalf of families where appropriate.
• Have overall management in the escalation and step-down of cases in alignment with LB Haringey Guidance on need thresholds and Children’s Social Care professionals.
• Provide professional expertise and guidance to Locality Managers and Senior Family Support Workers to set targets for Locality teams and individual team members, relating to the management and delivery of family support work.
• Develop effective working relationships with other professionals, including managers in education, health, community safety, housing, and the voluntary and community sector to oversee the coordination and delivery of partnership approaches.
• Work with the Locality Manager to strengthen partnership working in localities and embed Early Help Assessments.
• Develop an effective and responsive Haringey Early Help Outcomes Framework by ensuring team processes, procedures, and practitioner tools evidence the impact of early help and track changes in families’ outcomes.
• Take a proactive approach to own professional development, making the most of opportunities to develop new skills, knowledge, and expertise.
• Prepare high-quality reports to strict deadlines.
• Undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.

Requirements:

• A social work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.
• Experience line managing practitioners to deliver excellent outcomes for families, children, and young people.

Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and is committed to promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.