Dudley - Team Manager - Family Help
Dudley Metropolitan Brough Council is currently seeking an experienced Team Manager to support their Family Help Team.
Location: Council House, Priory Road
Pay Rate: £44.00 per hour (Umbrella)
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide operational and strategic leadership to a Family Help Team delivering early help and statutory support to children, young people and families.
- Oversee allocation, case progression, and performance management to ensure timely, high-quality interventions that improve outcomes and reduce risk.
- Deliver reflective supervision, coaching and professional development for social workers and family support practitioners, promoting a strong learning culture.
- Ensure practice consistently meets statutory requirements, safeguarding standards, and local policies, including effective risk management and decision-making.
- Monitor service performance through audit, quality assurance activity, and data analysis, implementing improvement plans where required.
- Lead on complex case discussions, strategy meetings and multi-agency planning, providing clear management oversight and escalation where necessary.
- Drive effective partnership working with education, health, police and voluntary sector partners to deliver coordinated family help and safeguarding responses.
- Manage team resources, workload distribution and capacity planning to maintain safe and sustainable caseloads.
- Contribute to service development, transformation and continuous improvement initiatives across Children's Services.
- Represent the service at internal and external meetings, panels and forums, promoting best practice and positive outcomes for children and families.
- Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion principles are embedded within practice and service delivery.
- Maintain compliance with organisational policies, procedures and regulatory standards.
Essential Requirements:
- Social Work Qualification - Degree or equivalent
- At least 3 years' experience as a social worker within children's services
- Social Work England Registration
- Driving license and access to own vehicle
If you are interested in this position, please send your CV to Yug Vaishnav at or call on 020 4574 3378.
Benefits of working with Eden Brown Synergy include:
- DBS check processed and paid for by Eden Brown Synergy
- Referral bonus if you refer a colleague or friend to us
- Bonus for finding your own job
- Twice weekly payroll
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