Team Leader
The Role
About Wandsworth Family Safeguarding Project
As one of only 16 authorities implementing the Family Safeguarding model nationally and the first in London, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative, co- located, specialist team in Wandsworth.
Family Safeguarding aims to keep families together, where it is safe to do so, through a more collaborative way of working where parents are motivated to identify the changes needed within their own families. Specialist support provided from a range of agencies will address parental mental health, parental substance misuse and domestic abuse which are major contributing factors that put children at risk of significant harm.
This is an exciting time to join the Wandsworth Community Drug and Alcohol Service (WCDAS), working for We Are With You alongside our partners; SLaM NHS Trust, St Mungo’s and CDARS. We are recruiting for a Team Leader to line manage and support the development of recovery workers within our innovative, new Family Safeguarding Project supporting service users across the borough.
This post will form part of a brand-new specialist, multi-disciplinary team, which includes Psychologists, Children Social Workers, Substance misuse and Domestic Abuse Workers. The work involves engaging parents with substance misuse issues, assessment of risk stemming from these difficulties and their bearing on individuals’ parenting capability, assisting and enabling accessing suitable treatment and interventions, as well as fostering ongoing adherence with treatment.
The successful postholder will also receive specialist training related to Family Safeguarding.
What we’re looking for
We are currently looking for a Team Leader with experience of working within a substance misuse setting to join our expanding service in the London borough of Wandsworth, where we work as a consortium with SLaM NHS Trust, St Mungos and CDARS.
You will support individual staff with developing their performance in their recovery work, as well as supporting with safeguarding and quality assurance. This post requires a dynamic individual with excellent leadership skills to work innovatively and confidently.
The post holder will be required to work closely with the Management Team, helping to deliver services to the highest standards and have the vision and drive to develop our future, the capacity to work with competing demands and tight timescales will be underpinned by a commitment to quality.
About the role:
- Demonstrable experience of leadership and management skills.
- Passionate about substance misuse and a drive in supporting and developing a team to deliver high quality services in line with the organisational strategy.
- You’ll have a strong understanding of performance and safeguarding, as well as experience of coaching and supporting others in these areas.
- A self–starter, someone with a drive to develop professionally and to motivate and inspire development in others.
- Supporting a team to work remotely in order to provide an effective PSI support to service users and promote staff development and retention.
Further information
This job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level with Barred List(s).
This is a permanent full time role for 37.5 hours per week.
You will also receive an Inner London Weighting allowance of £2,759.00 per annum (pro-rata if part-time).
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 16 February 2022 via online video call (Google Meet).
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. This is a great opportunity for someone to make a difference.
For more information contact Silvia Marongiu, Operations Manager via email; silvia.marongiu@wearewithyou.org.uk or mobile; 07814 180977. Please quote the reference number in all correspondence.
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Richmond and Wandsworth Councils