Team Manager - Frontline​/ASYE

Grade 10 – Salary – £59,511 – £63,966 pa

As Team Manager supporting Havering’s Frontline and ASYE cohort, you will play a vital role in developing, supporting and retaining newly qualified and early‑career social workers, ensuring they build strong foundations for high‑quality, confident and child‑centred practice.

You will provide dedicated leadership, management oversight and professional guidance to social workers undertaking the Frontline programme and the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE). You will ensure that learning and development are effectively embedded into frontline practice, enabling practitioners to progress safely, confidently and competently within statutory children’s social care.

You will be responsible for creating a supportive, reflective and learning‑focused environment, providing high‑quality supervision, coaching and performance management. You will balance the developmental needs of newly qualified social workers with the delivery of timely, safe and effective practice for children and families, ensuring that safeguarding remains paramount at all times.

A key element of the role is working closely with the Social Care Academy, practice educators, programme leads and operational managers to ensure that Frontline and ASYE requirements are met, progress is monitored and learning is translated into practice. You will have oversight of caseloads, assessments and decision‑making, ensuring proportionate risk management and compliance with statutory guidance, local procedures and Havering’s practice framework.

Key aims and objectives of the role include:

• Supporting newly qualified social workers to develop confidence, competence and professional identity
• Embedding reflective, relationship‑based and evidence‑informed practice
• Ensuring safe, timely and high‑quality decision‑making that safeguards children and promotes positive outcomes
• Identifying learning needs and supporting progression through effective supervision and development planning
  
  Contributing to workforce stability, retention and continuous service improvement

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the next generation of social workers within a local authority that places strong emphasis on learning, development and staff wellbeing. Havering is committed to high‑quality supervision, manageable caseloads and structured support for early‑career practitioners, underpinned by our Social Care Academy.

If you are passionate about developing practitioners, committed to high standards of practice and motivated by supporting others to succeed, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to make a lasting impact on both the workforce and the lives of children and families.

You will be an experienced and reflective social work professional with a strong commitment to developing and supporting early‑career practitioners. You will bring a calm, encouraging and authoritative leadership style, with the ability to balance support and challenge to promote safe, effective and confident practice.

You will be a qualified Social Worker, holding a CQSW, Diploma in Social Work or equivalent qualification
, and be registered with Social Work England
. You will have substantial post‑qualifying experience within children’s social care and demonstrable experience of supervising, mentoring or managing social workers, including newly qualified practitioners or students.

You will have a strong understanding of statutory children’s social care, safeguarding responsibilities and professional standards, with the ability to apply this knowledge to support developing practitioners in complex practice situations. You will be skilled in reflective supervision, coaching and practice observation, enabling social workers to build analytical skills, resilience and professional confidence.

You will be confident in managing performance, supporting learning and addressing practice concerns in a constructive and proportionate way. You will be able to work collaboratively with learning and development colleagues, programme leads and operational managers to ensure that Frontline and ASYE requirements…