Team Manager (Safeguarding)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO7
Salary: £57,663 – £60,819 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 27th April 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 5th May 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

To provide management and support which ensures the team delivers a high quality social work service to children and families working in partnership with other statutory and third sector organisations.
To ensure that the team of Social Workers, Senior Practitioners and other social care staff are provided with excellent management, supervision, appraisal and personal development opportunities.
To contribute to the development of practice and policy initiatives across children’s services.  

About You

• Qualified Social worker with Current Social Work England registration 
• A minimum of three years post qualifying experience in children’s services and expertise in the specific service area. 
• Evidence of good quality practice, consistent with notions of authoritative practice 
• Either experience of student/staff supervision and/or evidence of training and learning in supervisory skills and techniques 
• A recognised management qualification or evidence of participation on an organisational leadership  or management development program 
• Ability to take responsibility for planning and managing own time and the work load of the team, balancing competing demands and meeting objectives and deadlines. 
• Understanding of Performance Assessment Framework within the context of high quality social work practice. 
• Ability to provide leadership to the team; supervise staff, to assess professional competence and enable further professional development in others; influence and coach others and to raise the standards of other practitioners  
• Good knowledge of child development, extensive experience of work in the specific service area  
• Good knowledge of all relevant legislation including 1989 and 2004 Children Acts and the 2002 Children and Adoption Act  and Leaving Care Act 2000

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 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 your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk