Our Client Hackney Council, is looking for an Assistant Team Manager to join their Safeguarding and Reviewing Service.
The successful candidate would be primarily responsible for covering both Child Protection and Looked After Children Processes. This would include duty safeguarding consultations, as well as chairing Child Protection Conferences and Looked After Reviews as per the job and person specification. This role provides an opportunity to further shape the quality assurance and practice across both child protection and Looked After Children's services in Hackney.
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative, committed and passionate worker, who will bring a comprehensive knowledge and skill-base to the challenge of working with vulnerable children and families, and who will have sound knowledge of services from the front door, through to long term work, Looked After Children, care leavers and foster carers.
Our Service seeks to actively contribute to organisational learning through recognising, promoting and supporting best practice and service development, retaining a clear focus upon positive good outcomes and stability for children and families across the borough. Hackney is proud of its organisational learning culture and strives to find innovative ways of engaging and facilitating change with children and their families.
Candidates must have:
- a relevant professional social work degree
- current registration with Social Work England
- 5 years post qualifying experience experience of managing and developing staff and best practice
- evidence of continuing professional development
- An enhanced DBS check is required.
Benefits of working with Remedy
- A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
- Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
- Competitive Referral scheme
- Double payrolls each week.
Terms & Conditions apply
You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.
To be considered for this role, please apply with your CV to on the social care team.
Remedy Social Care is a REC Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit