Team Manager - Family Help Team - Stroud, Glos

Eden Brown Synergy; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Eden Brown Synergy is seeking a Family Help Team Leader to oversee the Gloucestershire Stroud Family Help Team. You will ensure quality practice and timely interventions within an area-based team, supervising staff delivering support under Early Help and Child in Need frameworks.

You will drive high-quality practice, support recruitment and staff development, and foster effective cross-agency collaboration, with hybrid working and office presence required three days a week.

Responsibilities

• support the operational delivery of the Family Help Team
• develop and motivate multidisciplinary staff
• promote consistent, high-quality Family Help practice
• contribute to service objectives, standards and improvement activity
• build effective multi-agency partnerships
• make evidence-based decisions concerning requests for support and resource allocation
• use team-level information to help services respond to local need
• contribute to recruitment, employee development and effective management of resources
• There is an expectation that you will be in the office for at least 3 days per week depending on business needs

Job description

Team Manager required for work within the Family Help Team in the Gloucestershire area in Stroud. Candidates will be working in the long term Stroud Safeguarding Team based either in Stroud. Pay Rate - £47ph. Contract for 3- 6 months initially. Flexible hybrid working.

As a Family Help Team Leader, you will provide operational oversight and quality assurance of Family Help practice within an area-based team. You will support workers to deliver high-quality, timely and evidence-informed interventions that reflect Gloucestershire's practice model.

You will directly supervise colleagues delivering support under the Targeted Early Help and Child in Need frameworks. This will include providing high-quality caseload and reflective supervision, maintaining oversight of assessment and intervention work, supporting effective resource allocation and ensuring that practice complies with legislation, statutory guidance and GCC policies.

There is an expectation that you will be in the office for at least 3 days per week depending on business needs.

You will also:

• support the operational delivery of the Family Help Team
• develop and motivate multidisciplinary staff
• promote consistent, high-quality Family Help practice
• contribute to service objectives, standards and improvement activity
• build effective multi-agency partnerships
• make evidence-based decisions concerning requests for support and resource allocation
• use team-level information to help services respond to local need and
• contribute to recruitment, employee development and effective management of resources.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.