We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Southwark to assist with the appointment of a Family Early Help Team Manager, on a 3-month contract, likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Hours per week: 18

Rate of Pay: £28.96 - £37.96 per Hour

Responsibilities:

• Provide exemplary leadership, management, and professional guidance to a team of early help practitioners, both directly and within their team
• Ensure the delivery of an outstanding 1Family Early Help Service driving high quality, comprehensive, integrated, systemically-informed practice with families where children have been identified as at risk of poor outcomes and to provide early help for emerging problems in order to improve impact, engage families better and avoid escalation
• Support continued progress of families who have transferred from statutory work and work with a high level of complexity
• Promote and govern excellent family early help practice, including assessing need, planning and working purposefully with families, support networks and other professionals to prevent escalation to higher levels of statutory intervention, safeguard and promote positive outcomes for children
• Ensure the delivery of an early help service which is both relationship-based and responsive to the needs of children and their families in a timely manner and within service or statutory guidelines
• Promote, lead and manage the development of excellent and confident early help practitioners

Qualifications:

• Must hold a professional qualification in Social Work, or a related profession working with children young people and families
• Must be able to provide evidence of continuing professional development
• Significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context, in addition to formulating and implementing effective intervention plans with families

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K
• This role requires an enhanced DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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