Deputy Team Manager - Family Help
About the job
Salary: £45,718 - £48,710 a year pro rata plus £3,203 car benefit allowance and £5,000 market supplement allowance
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Maternity Cover for up to 1 year
If you are a permanent LBC employee, this role is available as a secondment. You must have written approval (an email will suffice) from your manager prior to applying and a copy will need to be submitted with your application. Please note: we will not be able to proceed with your application form without your manager’s permission.
Are you passionate about improving the lives of vulnerable children and families? Do you have the leadership skills and safeguarding expertise to drive high standards in early help and child in need services? If so, we’d love to hear from you.
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Assistant Team Manager to support the Family Help Team Manager in leading a large, multi-disciplinary team committed to early intervention and positive outcomes for families.
You’ll play a vital part in shaping and delivering integrated support by managing a diverse team that includes:
- Social workers and family help practitioners
- Psychologists and CAMHS workers
- Health visitors, adult mental health nurses, and youth workers
- Attendance support officers and police community support officers
- Speech and language therapists and DWP work coaches
- Social prescribers, early years workers, DA workers, and housing officers
- Prevent workers and a range of valued voluntary sector partners
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the Team Manager with operational leadership
- Prioritising vulnerable and at-risk children, ensuring the right support at the right time
- Driving high standards of practice using Luton’s Practice Framework
- Supporting staff performance, development, and well-being
- Representing the service at key internal and external meetings
Please note this role does not attract sponsorship.
About you
We’re looking for someone who is not only experienced but also committed to continuous development and professional excellence. You’ll need:
- Substantial post-qualifying experience in child and family social work
- A proven track record of coaching, mentoring, and motivating staff
- In-depth knowledge of children’s safeguarding, risk management, and legislation
- Excellent judgement and decision-making skills, including on high-risk cases
- A strong understanding of the social care needs of children and families
- A commitment to achieving the highest standards of practice
- A relevant social work qualification (e.g. Dip SW, CQSW)
- Social Work England registration
About us
Luton Council has been selected to deliver the government’s Families First for Children Pathfinder programme.
Luton is one of seven new areas in the second wave to be chosen with the aim of protecting vulnerable children from harm and improving services to help more children stay with their families in safe and loving homes.
The programme is an amazing opportunity for Luton to shape future social care practice, which includes closer working relationships with our health, police, education and voluntary sector partners.
Children are at the heart of everything we do in Luton, and we are very proud of the tremendous work that is already taking place together with our partners, including the development of our Family Hubs and working towards making Luton a child-friendly town where our children and young people can grow up feeling happy, healthy and secure.
Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision – that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty – is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.
The people of Luton depend heavily on this council – and that means our workforce! Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough
Application process
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
Additional information
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:
- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
- Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant
- Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility)
- Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home
- Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns
- Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways
- Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons
- Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel
- Friday Funday Socials - One Friday every 2 months where we encourage our staff to get together to socialise after work
Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.Salary range
- £45,718 - £48,710 per year