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Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, LONDON (On-Site)
Contract, Full time
Enhanced DBS check required
£51,099 - £54,135
35 Hours
About Us
We believe that the best place for children is to be raised within their own families, immediate or wider, wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so.
In Tower Hamlets we are committed to building relationships and strengthening families by working with people in a compassionate and understanding way.
We are ambitious for Tower Hamlets children and families and endeavour for every child and young person to be healthy, safe and successful.
Tower Hamlets is a progressive, ambitious and diverse place to work. We place children and families at the heart of everything that we do and are relentless in our pursuit of positive outcomes for all.
Our Better Together Practice Framework is based on the ideas and concepts which underpin Restorative Practice and draws from other strength-based approaches, such as Systemic and Trauma Informed Practice.
Our C-Change approach: Connect, Curious, Community, Co-Produce, Collaborate, Check, sets out “6 Cs ” for our work with children, young people their parents and carers, and each other.
About The Job
We have an exciting opportunity for a Better Together Practice Lead position, in the Learning Academy, with a focus on embedding Better Together across Early Help.
The Learning Academy is an innovative approach to enabling practice excellence and ensuring recruitment, retention and development of outstanding practitioners. The Tower Hamlets Learning Academy is a centre that seeks to influence and build the organisational culture to achieve excellent outcomes for children and families. The key objectives of the Learning Academy are:
Key Responsibilities
The Better Together Practice Lead for Early Help is a new role that has been created to strategically support and enable the embedding of the practice framework across the Supporting Families Division. The key expectations of the role are:
Please see attached JD for full details.
The post holder will be based in the Learning Academy and will report to the Better Together Lead within the Learning Academy.
About You
Our Offer:
We've been working hard to make Tower Hamlets a great place to practice social work. We will help you to develop excellent social work practice, leading to career advancement at your own pace. We are committed to developing excellent practitioners and making Tower Hamlets an employer of choice.
We offer brand new state-of-the-art offices in the heart of the east end with great transport connections. We have fantastic transport links – Tower Hamlets town hall is directly opposite Whitechapel Station, putting all of London within easy reach of the town hall.
Our employees are put on the Local Government Pension Scheme. This is a career average salary scheme, so your pension benefits are guaranteed and do not depend on how investments perform. We pay into the fund on your behalf.
We positively encourage flexible working and work life balance aimed at supporting individual employee requirements within the context of meeting service needs.
We have a number of money-saving schemes, including a rent deposit scheme (which offers staff an interest free loan to help pay rent deposits) and season ticket loan scheme (interest-free loans to help staff when purchasing travel season tickets).
If you choose to work with us you will benefit from:
How to Apply
Please complete the application form on our online recruitment system – Alvius.
For further information about this role or to discuss your interest please email Marie Larvin, Better Together Lead within the Learning Academy Marie.Larvin@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Additional Details
Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.
Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.
We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.
We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.