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Better Together Practice Leader

  • Employer: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
  • Reference: J-2457
  • Published: Tue 24/09/2024, 12:15 PM
  • Closing on: Sun 13/10/2024, 1:00 AM
  • Working Pattern: Full Time
  • Hours: 35 Hours
  • Salary: £51,099 - £54,135
  • DBS Check: Enhanced
  • Location: Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, LONDON

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:

  • Relationships at the heart of practice – embedding the ‘Better Together’ Practice Framework
  • Enabling Practice Excellence- High value and byte sized accessible training, coaching, mentoring and practice improvement drives
  • Ensuring quality of practice – relational approach to audits to enable learning and practice excellence
  • Relational approach to recruitment and retention – a five-year programme for newly qualified social workers and career progression pathways for experienced practitioners
  • Creating a culture of innovation – supporting and enabling practitioners to innovate and work with services users to find solutions

 

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:

  1. To provide mentoring, training, consultation, professional support and reflective supervision to practitioners and managers across the division, with a particular focus on Early Help
  2. To offer practice support to those in the division who require particular input with complex work, particularly in relation to conflict, repairing relationships and addressing harm
  3. To contribute to the SFD quality assurance framework, delivering remedial practice learning where required
  4. To contribute to the workforce development strategy, raising practice standards
  5. To act as a champion for the Supporting Families Division Better Together Practice Framework, both internally and externally
  6. To influence policies and processes to ensure they are in line with the Better Together framework.

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

  • You will be an experienced practitioner who understands the service needs and good practice across Early Help, Youth Justice and Children’s Social Care.
  • You will have a track record of working relationally and restoratively, even when there is conflict or disagreement.
  • You will have an understanding of practice frameworks and how to embed one across a large organization, including connecting with partner agencies.
  • You will be a good communicator, who feels confident supporting others to improve their practice.
  • You will be able to design and deliver training, and able to respond to competing demands.
  • You will be motivated and able to use initiative to see and respond to opportunities in line with the main goal of embedding the Better Together Framework.

 

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:

  • A competitive salary - £51,099 - £54,135
  • Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 29 working days, rising to 33 days with 5+ years' service, in addition to bank holidays and an additional 3 days at Christmas.  
  • Opportunities for career development, with a clear framework for career development/leadership programme
  • Good quality, regular, reflective supervision
  • Enhanced sick pay scheme, maternity/adoption leave pay and maternity support leave
  • Opportunities for agile/flexible working 
  • Cycle to work scheme/ Rent deposit scheme/Access to free eye tests
  • Discounted gym/Costco membership & You at Work discounts and many others

 

How to Apply

Please complete the application form on our online recruitment system – Alvius.

  • Closing date: 13th October 2024
  • Test/Interviews will be held the week of 21st October

 

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.

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  • Employer: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
  • Reference: J-2457
  • Published: Tue 24/09/2024, 12:15 PM
  • Closing on: Sun 13/10/2024, 1:00 AM
  • Working Pattern: Full Time
  • Hours: 35 Hours
  • Salary: £51,099 - £54,135
  • DBS Check: Enhanced
  • Location: Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, LONDON