Team Manager - Corporate Parenting

Job Description

Are you ready to lead a team that supports care-experienced young people as they shape their futures?

We’re offering an exciting opportunity to step into a Team Manager role within Harrow’s Corporate Parenting Service. You’ll lead a dedicated team supporting Children Looked After, Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, and Care Leavers, driving forward an ambitious service committed to co-production, relational practice, and equity.

Following the ILACS in January 2025, there has been a commitment to develop and implement a bespoke service for Care Leavers aged 18 – 25 years old. An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Team Manager to lead and drive this exciting new development. This will be a 12-month fixed term secondment opportunity at Team Manager level to lead one of our Looked after Children’s Teams, again this will initially be for a 12-month secondment opportunity. These are exciting times in being part of a key improvement journey for our looked after children and care leavers.

This pivotal role involves leading Social Workers and Personal Advisors. You will be responsible for ensuring comprehensive services are provided to Care Leavers and ensuring there are effective transition arrangements in place for children in care from the aged of 15.5 years old.

Your Role in Shaping the Service

As Team Manager, you will play a pivotal role in:

• Leading and supporting Social Workers, Senior Practitioners and Personal Advisors delivering high-quality, trauma-informed support to young people.
• Driving practice development, quality assurance, and innovation.
• Co-producing service improvements and our Local Offer alongside young people.
• Promoting a culture of learning, collaboration, and accountability.

What You’ll Get from Us

• The chance to shape an ambitious, child-centred service
• Leadership development and mentoring opportunities
• Reflective supervision and support from an experienced Service Manager
• A learning culture that values creativity, feedback and outcomes

The successful candidate will have:

• A recognised professional Social Work qualification (e.g., CQSW or Dip SW) and a minimum of four years post qualifying experience, including the management and supervision of social care staff undertaking statutory work with children and families, preferably in a fieldwork setting.

• Registered with the SWE as a social work professional.

• Knowledge of regulatory and inspection frameworks governing children’s services.

• Experience of providing professional supervision, team building, reflective learning and development.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Excellent assessment and analytical skills.

• Ability to form, develop and maintain effective partnership relationships.

• Educated to degree level or equivalent or has the equivalent relevant work experience.

• Proven leadership experience in children’s social care.

• Strong knowledge of the legislative frameworks relevant to CLA and Leaving Care.

• Ability to lead and motivate teams, manage change, and deliver measurable impact.

• Reflective, emotionally intelligent leadership with a focus on equity and co-production.

• Confidence in managing complexity, risk, and performance with compassion and rigour.

This post will require a satisfactory enhanced DBS.

Please note interviews will be held on 24 July 2025.

For more information, please refer to the Role Profile/Selection Criteria

About us

Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit with a range of cultures, religions and opinions that come together to produce high achieving schools and a close and friendly community. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

Other information

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Important Note

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