Court Progression & Assurance Service Manager

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO8
Salary: £61,980 – £65,478 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 16th March 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 24th March 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

This role collaborates with internal and external partners (including the local authority legal department, courts, and Cafcass) to design, implement, and review policies, procedures, and systems for robust, efficient, and user-focused children’s services that meet legal and best practice requirements.  The postholder is responsible to the relevant Head of Service, Children’s Social Care, for all case progression, court and legal processes and the performance management and quality assurance of all casework going through private and public law outline proceedings (including pre-proceedings).

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that any work entering the Court system is of good standard and within prescribed timescales. It oversees the effective management and progression of highly complex cases involving children and families, throughout a range of legal processes.

About You

• Substantial, demonstrable experience of working with, and providing services to, children and their families subject to statutory social work interventions. 
• Substantial, demonstrable experience of working in, and providing statutory safeguarding services to, children and their families. 
• Substantial, demonstrable experience of working with the Public Law Outline, S7 Private Proceedings and general case and Court work. 
• A qualified and registered Social Worker, educated to graduate level, with clear evidence of continuous professional development including advanced/post qualification social work qualifications. 
• A very high degree of current, professional knowledge and understanding regarding children’s social work practice. Particularly a very high degree of current knowledge and understanding of social work practice and pathways specifically within the safeguarding and legal process e.g.: parallel planning, connected persons and adoption etc. 
• Demonstrable ability to understand and analyse complex information. Specifically, the ability to interpret, understand, analyse, and respond to complex information to inform well rounded decision making and solve problems.   
• Demonstrable high level, dynamic, flexible oral and written communication skills, and the ability to convey complex information to a varied audience in the most simplified and easily understood terms (must be able to fulfil all spoken and written aspects of the role with confidence using the English Language). 
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills with a demonstrable ability to use interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with staff, managers, partners, and service users.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk