London (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
No DBS check required
£50,000 - £99,999
FULLTIME
Salary: £66,573 - £79,782
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37
Closing Date: Monday 30th September 2024 23:59
Interviews to be held: Wednesday 9th & Tuesday 15th October 2024
About Camden
Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.
How You’ll Be Involved
This is an opportunity to be part of a thriving and dynamic service across Camden’s Children and Learning directorate. As part of our new Relational Practice centre the Service Lead is a new role that will play a central role in achieving positive outcomes for children and families in Camden, by inspiring, encouraging, and developing excellent systemic practice to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people.
You will be joining a friendly and engaging leadership team that is committed to keeping families together by working closely with colleagues and partners in respectful and appreciative ways to help find families strengths to deliver the best possible outcomes for children in the borough.
The role
You will be an Associate for our new Centre for Relational Practice.
Bringing expertise in the field of systemic practices, you will be responsible for developing, promoting, and communicating our practice approach into all aspects of service delivery within children’s social care. You will be responsible for:
- Working directly with children and families
- Ensuring effective performance management of the service
- The supervision of Family and Systemic Psychotherapists
- Supporting service development and research projects
- Strategic and operational responsibility for the Systemic Service
You will also, as the lead clinician, be responsible for the strategic leadership of our practice framework and anti-racist practice
- You will lead on the training of systemic ideas and practices across children’s services, supporting all the teams that are working within a clear systemic framework of the Camden Model of Social Work
- You will also deliver therapeutic interventions alongside practitioners and support the development of practitioners’ skills in this area.
- To lead in improving practice quality through embedding our practice framework and offering mentoring, coaching and consultation where required.
- You will be responsible for service innovation, improvements, and implementation.
- You will be responsible for evaluation, reporting, and presentation at various strategic meetings.
- You will contribute to the workstreams in the Centre for Relational Practice and the Academy, ensuring that there is coherence across the Directorate with respect to workforce development.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.
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All About you
To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories' and see attached videos https://www.londonsocialworkforchildren.com/our-councils/camden
To be considered for this role, you will need a UKCP recognised qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy. It is desirable but not essential for you also hold a Social Work Qualification – CQSW/ Dip SW/ Degree in Social Work, however demonstrable relevant post qualification experience of working within Children’s Services.
You will need to have a strong commitment to anti-racist and anti-discriminatory practice. As well as an active awareness of self, relational and epistemological reflexivity, and the way in which personal and professional stories can impact children and families and professional relationships.
You will be a natural born leader with the ability to manage, lead and motivate staff and foster their development and to relate and work with people at all levels. You will be able to relate everyday practice issues to the wider strategic context, and ability to apply theory to practice and shape the practice of others. You will also need to have a high level of communication skills with the ability to convey complex information in accessible form, including presenting to large internal/external groups.
What We Offer
At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working opportunities
- Interest free loans
- Access to our incredible staff networks
- Career development and training
- Wellbeing support and activities
Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity
Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.
Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.