Team Manager - First

Team Manager – Future First Service

£51,540 - £62,451 per annum, Permanent, Full Time (36 hours), Wandsworth, London, Ofsted Rating:
Outstanding, Hybrid Working:
Office based 50% of the time.

Future First is the Leaving Care Service for Wandsworth Children’s Social Care, supporting over 440 young people aged 16-25 who are in the care of Wandsworth Borough Council. As part of a dedicated, vibrant and enthusiastic team of 36 professionals, your role will be to provide leadership and management to your team, inspiring them to help young people build stable and successful independent lives.

You will manage 5 Personal Advisors and be linked to an area of specialism within the service (Parenting Support, Mental Health, UASC specialisms across the teams). Your focus will be ensuring that the support provided by your team meets all the statutory obligations for Care Experienced young people, and that our aspirational local offer and focus on relational practice is reflected in all the work done by your supervises.

You will encourage your staff to access training which enhances and scaffolds their practice, and you will monitor daily data sets to ensure that we meet all of our KPIs. You will be motivated to help us consistently develop and increase our offer to Care Experienced young people and enjoy spending time with young people to get feedback on how they are experiencing our support.

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England and successful completion of your ASYE.
• Significant Team Manager experience with specialist experience in working within services supporting Care Experienced young people.
• Experience as a problem solver, with attention to detail and a passion for improving outcomes for young people.
• Previous experience working within services for Looked After and Care Experienced young people, with the ability to utilise this experience to support practice within your team.
• Awareness of the principles of Systemic Social Work and the motivation to develop those skills and promote with supervises the importance and value of relational practice.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. We are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We promote equality and diversity and develop a culture that values differences. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults, and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and appointment to these posts is conditional upon a satisfactory DBS check.

Benefits include 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.