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Team Manager (Qualified Social Worker) | Looked After Children | London Borough of Havering*

Please only apply if you have a RECOGNISED SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATION, RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AND SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND REGISTRATION

Without all of the above essential criteria your application WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

Experienced Team Manager required to join Havering's Looked After Children's Service (aka LAC / CIC / Child In Care / Corporate Parenting)
Hybrid working
Office base: London Borough of Havering*
You must have a social work qualification and full SWE registration as well as relevant experience to be considered
London Pledge Rates Apply - £44.50ph
If you are interested in discussing this position in more detail, or you would like to register with Caritas for work, please call, text,, email or Whatsapp Gemma Bridgman on (phone number removed) or email

**ESSENTIAL**

- Experience in care proceedings and or children looked after

Rate: £44.50 Umbrella

Work Arrangements: Hybrid

Interviews: Ongoing.

Duration: 3 months (with opportunity for extension)

Role: Management

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Structure: (Please see attached New Structure Org Chart)

Havering are recruiting experienced social workers for roles in our New Safeguarding Teams. These teams will focus on:

- Children in need casework (CIN)

- Children and families (domestic abuse)

- Child protection (CP)

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Key focus:

As a Team manager within the Safeguarding you will be required to:

Ability to manage a caseload of complex and challenging cases
Capability to support the Group manager in maintaining and developing high standards across the team
Represent the service in developing key service provision or strategy initiatives
Provide coaching and mentoring within the team as well as effective case management and high quality written work _______________________________________________________________________

Successes:

We have successfully recruited a number of new social workers to our teams and we look forward to welcoming experienced social workers to our remaining vacancies. We have a rapid turnaround on interviews.

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Support Network:

- We have 2 permanent consultant social workers who work closely with all our ASYE's and social workers within the service

- Systemic Practitioners who offer consultations and support to all our staff.

- Havering also offer robust support within their HR framework

- Each Team is made up of:

- 1x TM

- 2 x AP to support with complex casework.

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Working Model:

- Hybrid model

- Flexible approach involving working from our town hall campus/hubs.

- Expectation to work from our town hall campus during your teams duty week, for team meetings and other development days and at managers discretion some ad-hoc days onsite may be needed.

- Encouraging face to face working for teams as we know how important this is for social workers and all meetings with children and family take place face to face.

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Requirements:

Social Work England (SWE) registration.
Minimum 2years + working experience (social worker with children and families, including assessments and statutory work). ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why Havering?

- Reflection spaces available

- Meeting rooms and quiet spaces available to book

- On-site Parking available (subsidised for all Havering council staff)

- Access to our systemic training offers and development pathway

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Working location and arrangements (if not working from home): Town Hall, Main Road, Romford RM1 3AR Our main Town Hall campus benefits from excellent transport links via car or public transport. Our offices are located centrally in Romford, only 18 minutes from London Liverpool Street Station and easily accessible via the M25, A12, A406 and A127

*Please note this vacancy is subject to the London Agency Worker Pledge Agreement which stipulates:-

Permanently employed Social Workers are restricted from undertaking an agency role with a London Pledge Borough for a 6-month period following departure (if leaving perm role with London Authority, they cannot move to an agency role with another London Authority for 6 months)
3 weeks' notice period may be required (at discretion of manager/council)
Agency workers must have complete 2 years post AYSE (3 years PQ total), before they can be considered for agency roles within LondonCaritas Recruitment are a specialist recruitment agency for Qualified Social Workers at all levels. We supply Qualified Social Work staff to over 150 local authorities, UK wide, on a permanent and temporary (locum/contract) basis.If you know of someone who might be interested in this vacancy please ask them to get in touch; we offer a £300 referral bonus scheme for each friend/colleague you refer plus an additional £500 on your fifth referral!

Reasons to register with Gemma Bridgman at Caritas Recruitment:-

Honest & supportive Managing Consultant - over 10 years experience at Caritas, recruiting Social Workers at all levels across the UK
Additional Dedicated Payroll Consultant
Bonuses for candidate referrals, job referrals and securing your own placement
Permanent and Locum Social Work opportunities
Information and guidance on working via a Recruitment Agency, including unbiased payroll and umbrella information
Access to the broadest range of temporary and permanent vacancies nationwide as well as CAFCASS
CV review service and writing assistance
Copies of all your preferences provided without question
Interview guidance and preparation documents
Access to 'Holistic Support Package' for Mental and Physical Wellbeing
Subsidised trainingCaritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy