Service Lead - Health Visiting & Family Support
Salary: £59,759
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG / Various Camden Family Hubs
Hours per week: 36
Contract Type: Fixed Term/Secondment/Full Time until 30^th September 2025 (Mat leave cover)
Closing Date: Sunday 18th May 2025 at 23:59
Interview: Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd June 2025
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About the team/service
The Integrated Early Years’ Service delivers, coordinates and supports a range of services for children and their mums, dads and carers, from pregnancy to age 5 years. Our family support offer provides early help for mothers, fathers and carers and their children, using the Resilient Families and Family Hub model for prevention and early intervention.
What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved
We are looking for a Service Lead that will provide leadership and management to our Family Support Team Managers based in various localities in Camden (1a, Kentish Town, Euston & Kilburn) to ensure family work is managed effectively, ensuring Family Workers are supported to deliver high quality casework and with a focus on prevention and early intervention in the first 1001 days.
As a Service lead you will be committed to prevention and early intervention through integrated services for families with children 0-5 years to reduce inequality and improve outcomes for children and their families. You will be invested in leadership at a community level to ensure services meet need and are locally responsive to families and communities
You will be able to bring a strong partnership across the council and with VCS organisations are fostered, with children’s centres acting as a constituent part of the Family Hub network and safe, welcoming place for families to meet and support each other. Works with families through co-design and volunteering to provide inclusive family hubs and a coherent pathway of 0-5 services.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.
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All About You
To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.
To be considered for this exciting opportunity it is essential the successful candidate has a professional Social Work qualification e.g. DipSW or equivalent such as a Level 4 qualification in Education, Social Care, health or childcare or possesses significant experience of family support work within an early years’ service.
You'll be an experienced leader and manager, with the ability to build enthusiasm and motivate teams, engaging staff positively in new ways of working. Experience of leading and managing in a complex environment, with the ability to influence and be solution-focused
You will have an In-depth knowledge and experience of managing universal and targeted services, ensuring services are inclusive with high levels of engagement. Experience of overseeing child protection and safeguarding practice, supporting practitioners and managers to deliver best practice
Additionally you'll have a working knowledge of prevention and early intervention policy, research and practice, including early child development, the critical first 1001 days and public health strategies to support families and children (pregnancy to age 5). Experience of developing and implementing robust quality assurance processes, including service-user feedback, creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement
What We Offer
At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working opportunities
- Interest free loans
- Access to our incredible staff networks
- Career development and training
- Wellbeing support and activities
Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity
Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.
Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.