Hackney’s Children and Families Services offer visionary leadership, a culture of continuous learning and a climate for innovation. We are committed to outcomes for our children and families, recognising the impact of discrimination, disadvantage that many of our families experience. For these reasons, systemic, trauma informed and anti racist practice (STAR) is our practice model ensuring a social justice approach whilst creating change. We will offer exciting leadership learning and development opportunities to embed STAR and expect you
to lead exemplary anti-racist, trauma informed and systemic practice.
We currently have a Team Manager vacancy in Fostering Recruitment and Assessment which is based in our Corporate Parenting Service.
As Team Manager, you will lead the delivery of a confident, professional and respectful service that always places children at the centre of decisions. Your strong leadership skills will enable you to mobilise and engage multi-agency professionals and colleagues across all services to ensure families receive the right help at the right time, and to achieve the very best outcomes for children in Hackney. You will be responsible and accountable for ensuring the highest quality practice, contributing to the quality assurance and creating service wide change.
As part of our journey to be anti-racist we want our workforce to represent the community we serve and embrace diverse talent so we strongly encourage applications from Black and Global Majority Ethnic backgrounds.
You will be dedicated to our STAR approach, committed to child centred safeguarding practices and to identifying and challenging discrimination and racism. You will be creative, analytical and reflective and be willing to work hard to improve outcomes for children and young people. You will have excellent communication, negotiation and diplomacy skills to effectively create change in a partnership context.
Candidates must:
- Hold a relevant social work qualification or equivalent
- Be registered with Social Work England
- Have management and leadership experience
Our vision is to make Hackney a place for everyone. Where all our residents, whatever their background, have a chance to lead healthy and successful lives; a place of which everyone can be proud, with excellent services and public spaces, thriving businesses, and strong communities; a place that celebrates diversity, and where everyone can feel valued, included, and involved.
It is an exciting time to be working in Hackney as we are embedding our practice model of Systemic, Trauma informed and Anti-Racist practice. We are an innovative borough where we collaborate to support change for the children and families we work for and for each other. You will change and develop while working in Hackney and we will be behind you every step of the way. So, why don't you find yourself in Hackney?
Retention bonus for social workers in Children in Need and Access and Assessment Services- £1500 every 6 months.
Ad hoc parking permits available for social workers when required to use a vehicle for their role.
We prioritise the development and growth of staff and have reviewed and updated our ASYE programme of support, to ensure a structured learning programme that understands the journey of the child and utilises protected time.
Celebration and appreciation opportunities including a World Social Work Week thank you event and our Coffee Connection networking events.
A dedicated Race Equality and Inclusion team working to embed active anti-racist practice and support staff’s anti-racism journey.
Monthly group supervision for collaboration and support when things feel stuck
As well as our Council-wide benefits:
Generous holiday allowance – 27 days a year, rising to 32 after five years
Unrivalled pension scheme
Flexible working options
Family friendly policies
A range of discounts, including subsidised gym membership and local eating
Access to financial and season ticket loans
Health and wellbeing benefits, such as lunchtime fitness classes
A comprehensive training and development offer
We are a member of Cycle Scheme and offer free pool bikes
Email our recruitment team for more information on this role at cfs.recruitment@hackney.gov.uk