Social Worker Team Manager

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Day Webster Full time

Timetable as follows:
Interviews will take place on 14th December
W/C 14th December 2 day testing will be held on 17 and 18th December.
To provide exemplary leadership, management, and professional guidance to a team of social
workers, and where required other practitioners, both directly and within their team. To ensure
the delivery of a high quality, comprehensive, integrated, systemically-informed social work
service within Southwark's Practice Framework. To promote and govern excellent social work
practice, including assessing need, planning and working purposefully with families, support
networks and other professionals to safeguard children and young people, and promote
positive outcomes. To ensure the delivery of a social work service which is both relationshipbased and responsive to the needs of children, young people and their families in a timely
manner and within statutory guidelines. To promote, lead and manage the development of
excellent and confident practitioners.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Responsibilities (in line with the Knowledge and Skills Statements for Practice
Supervisors)
Promote and govern excellent practice

  • Through leadership and management, promote and govern excellent practice to deliver
high quality outcomes for children, young people and families in safeguarding and
care/pathway planning, ensuring accountability for high professional standards which
comply with procedures, agreed timescales and targets. Ensuring the safety of children and
young people remains the highest priority.

  • Responsible for management of the team, overseeing workload and performance
management to drive continuous service improvements, in co production with children and
young people.
Developing excellent practitioners

  • Provide high support and high challenge to motivate staff to carry out their roles to the best
of their ability and to the standards required of them (as set out in Children's Social care
Practice Standards July 2020 and Extending Personal Adviser support to all care leavers to
age 25, Statutory guidance for all local authorities February 2018).

  • Maintain own continuous professional development and that of the team through
appropriate training, learning and research opportunities and in conjunction with the Service
Manager.

  • Promote excellence in practice using research and practice evidence, tested to meet local
need, setting an expectation that Southwark's Practice Framework will be applied and
developed by practitioners.

  • Support and assess Newly Qualified Social Workers through their Assessed & Supported
Year in Employment (ASYE), others participating in work based routes into social work,
and Social Workers preparing for the National Assessment and Accreditation System
(NAAS), taking the role of practice educator.
Shaping and influencing the practice system

  • Positively manage and contribute to service development within the team and across the
service, by sharing practice knowledge and expertise, data and research findings, and by
monitoring key performance areas for the team.

  • Build effective partnerships to deliver services flexibly across the organisation (as
governed by
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