About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The role involves providing crucial support to the team manager in overseeing the team's operations and cultivating expertise in all areas covered by the service. This includes actively contributing to policy development within the service remit. The emphasis is on developing and maintaining practice proficiency to ensure the team's effective functioning. The incumbent is expected to manage a caseload of complex cases, demonstrating both experience and expertise in dealing with intricate practitioner input.

In addition to handling individual cases, the role extends to offering guidance, advice, and consultation on casework practices to fellow team members and other service collaborators. This collaborative approach fosters a culture of organizational learning and development, particularly in the context of partnership working. The overarching goal is to promote a dynamic environment where collective expertise is harnessed for the benefit of the team and the broader service.

Active participation in team and service management meetings is a key component of the role, highlighting the importance of effective communication and collaboration within the organizational structure. By attending these meetings, the individual contributes to decision-making processes, ensuring that insights from casework practice and service delivery inform broader strategic discussions. In summary, the role involves a combination of managerial support, caseload management, knowledge development, and collaborative engagement to contribute to the overall effectiveness and growth of the team and service.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

About You

The ideal candidate will need to be a resilient and authoritative practitioner who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of their practice. You will manage a number of complex cases, determining suitable thresholds in a timely manner and making recommendations about level of need and next steps in line with the Haringey Threshold guide. This will include liaising effectively and efficiently with both internal and external partners to ensure that children and young people are safe. Therefore, your written and verbal communication would need to be second to none and you would be used to providing high quality, evidence-based assessments.

We will also expect you to support your respective Team Manager and Deputy Team Manager in developing the team, e.g., supporting and mentoring ASYEs and less experienced colleagues, and helping to implement positive change and drive a high-performance culture in the team and service at large. In return, we will give you the time and support you need to make a difference. Alongside our generous learning and development offer, we offer a competitive salary package which includes a recruitment & retention payment and relocation offer (subject to eligibility, terms and conditions). We are actively working to reduce caseloads across the service and provide mobile working technology so that you spend more time with children and young people, doing what really matters.