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Early Help Team Manager

West Sussex County Council

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West Sussex, Hampshire, Based in Horsham or Chichester, but working countywide , Based in Crawley, Based in Chichester (On-Site)

Temporary, Full time

Enhanced DBS check required

£45441 - £48474 per annum

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West Sussex County Council is a diverse organisation that provides services to more than 850,000 residents' every day. Through our Early Help Service, we will work with children, families, and young people to help ensure that every person is supported to achieve his or her potential. The foundations for mental health, emotional control, doing well in education and parenting ability are all set in place in the early years; the home surroundings, family life and parenting are all important factors in determining positive outcomes for children as they grow and develop.

The Opportunity

Salary: £45,441 to £48,474 per annum
Working Pattern: Full Time (37 hours)
Contract Length: Fixed Term until 31/12/2025
Location: Horsham area

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

Early Help ensures that children and families receive accessible and co-ordinated support when they need it. This support ranges across a continuum from early identification and preventative approaches through to more targeted help where families are experiencing more complex or multiple difficulties. At every level support is designed to address and reduce the problems or challenges and prevent them getting worse.

As a Team Manager, you will be expected to lead, supervise and provide oversight of a team that provides direct intervention to children, young people and families through targeted support, partnership working within the dedicated schools team, or lead a team that provides support to the Early Help Hub. There is an expectation for you to be flexible and can lead on any of the three teams dependent on business need.

You will play a key role in the Early Help leadership team in bringing your knowledge and expertise into the development of services. You will be responsible for ensuring policies and practice are adhered to through a number of quality assurance processes. You will work alongside peers across the directorate to work collaboratively to ensure the needs of children are met.

Experience and Skills

Key Skills:

  • Ability to anticipate problems, plan solutions and make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions which will have a wider service impact, particularly in relation to providing a varied service, resource issues, partnership building (internally or externally) and the day-to-day management and direction of the team.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence the actions of others and communicate information which may be complex and contentious.
  • Effective people and performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and motivate and inspire the team to deliver quality professional practice.
  • Able to manage self, is self-aware and understands impact of work on self and others and responds constructively to situations. Understanding the need for emotional intelligence/resilience.
  • Ability to organise/prioritise work, co-ordinate a variety of tasks in a clear and logical way and meet agreed deadlines and outcomes without supervision.
  • Analytically minded with the ability to judge, analyse and interpret varied and highly complex situations to produce strategies over the long term.

Qualifications and/or experience:

  • Post graduate professional qualification relevant either to management or to a professional service specialism (e.g. Social Work, Health, Early Education and Childcare, Community Development, Family Support); or equivalent level of significant experience demonstrating comprehensive application of the above levels of knowledge in a relevant setting.
  • Relevant chartered status of a professional body or equivalent high-level experience of involved practices.
  • Advanced theoretical knowledge of systems, procedures and policies in specialist areas
  • Valid and full driving licence and access to a vehicle/ability to travel around the county independently.

Rewards and Benefits

For a full list of the benefits offered, you can find these on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05428.


Closing date: Mon 11/11/2024 at 12:23
Job reference: CAFHE05428
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