# Social Work Team Manager – Children and Families Service

**Company**: London Borough of Hackney
**Location**: London Borough of Hackney, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 62,634 - 67,083 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are currently looking for a Team Manager who has strong leadership skills, who will be able to mobilise and engage multi-agency professionals and colleagues across all services to ensure families receive the right help at the right time and to achieve the very best outcomes for children in Hackney.

The Family Help Service teams are made up of a senior social worker, social workers (including a newly qualified social worker) and a Family Help Practitioner.

Join us in Hackney for your next career move and start afresh in 2026. Our priority is to provide the highest quality support and care for Hackney’s children and families, providing the right support at the right time. We are rated Good by Ofsted and are continually seeking to improve our services and set this out in our Action Plan.

Our Systemic, Trauma-Informed and Anti-Racist (STAR) practice model informs everything we do.

We provide wide-ranging and excellent training and development opportunities; we will help you to develop excellent social work practice, leading to career advancement at your own pace.

Following on from our Anti Racist Summit in October 2023 we remain committed to dismantling systemic racism, discrimination, injustice and making anti-racism a foundation of our practice.

We pride ourselves on offering a high quality level of personal and case supervision, with a strong clinical offer and an approachable/visible management presence.

We are an innovative borough where we collaborate to support change for the children and families we work for and for each other.

Candidates must:

- Hold a relevant social work qualification

- Be registered with Social Work England

- Have management and leadership experience

An enhanced DBS check is required.

If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values so we achieve the best for our residents, please click on the apply button below.

As a Council, our most outstanding asset is our staff, who are highly dedicated to serving our residents and committed to our goals as an organisation.

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Therefore, we do not accept supporting statements or CV’s.

To proceed with your application, you will need to create an account and submit your application.

As part of the application process, you will need to complete a number of competency based questions. These questions allow you to demonstrate your suitability for the role and provide examples of your skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description.

Closing date for applications: 22 November 2026 (22:59)

Interview date: Wc 08 December 2026

Please note – we reserve the right to close applications early if we receive a high number of applications.

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## Skills

### Required
- social work qualification
- management and leadership experience
- registered with Social Work England

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