Job Description
About Us
Team Manager – Adolescent Service
Up to £62,451 per annum
Permanent
Full Time (36 hours)
Ofsted Rating: ‘Good'
Are you a qualified Social Worker with proven leadership and management knowledge, and a passion for working with and safeguarding Adolescents and young people at risk in the community?
As a Team Manager, you will oversee a dynamic group of 6–8 skilled Social Workers, including a Systemic Social Worker and an ASYE Social Worker, plus a Practice Specialist. Reporting to the Service Manager, you will provide strong supervision and management oversight, ensuring high-quality social work practice that supports adolescents and their families.
About The Role
This is a specialist role within Wandsworth’s Adolescent Service, which adopts a Contextual Safeguarding approach to tackle risks such as child sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, serious youth violence, gangs and online abuse. You will work closely with partner agencies to coordinate wraparound support and robust care planning, using trauma-informed and relational frameworks to protect young people and help them thrive.
Your leadership will be pivotal in delivering our vision and strategic priorities, managing complex cases involving contextual and extra-familial harm, and driving positive outcomes ...