Better Together Practice Leader

Overview

About Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council 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, Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is committed to building relationships and strengthening families by working with people in a compassionate and understanding way. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is ambitious for Tower Hamlets children and families, endeavoring for every child and young person to be healthy, safe, and successful.

Tower Hamlets is a progressive, ambitious, and diverse place to work. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council place children and families at the heart of everything that Tower Hamlets London Borough Council do and are relentless in Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's pursuit of positive outcomes for all.

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's Better Together Practice Framework is based on the ideas and concepts underpinning Restorative Practice and draws from other strength-based approaches, such as Systemic and Trauma Informed Practice. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's C-Change approach: Connect, Curious, Community, Co-Produce, Collaborate, Check, sets out the “6 Cs” for Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's work with children, young people, their parents and carers, and each other.

About The Job

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council have an exciting opportunity for a Better Together Practice Lead position in the Learning Academy, focusing 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 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 service 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.

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.

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's Offer:

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council've been working hard to make Tower Hamlets a great place to practice social work. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council will help you to develop excellent social work practice, leading to career advancement at your own pace. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is committed to developing excellent practitioners and making Tower Hamlets an employer of choice.

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council offer brand new state-of-the-art offices in the heart of the east end with great transport connections. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's employees are put on the Local Government Pension Scheme, which is a career average salary scheme, so your pension benefits are guaranteed and do not depend on how investments perform. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council pay into the fund on your behalf.

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council positively encourage flexible working and work-life balance aimed at supporting individual employee requirements within the context of meeting service needs. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council 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 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, 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.

Additional Details:

Tower Hamlets' vision for Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's borough is that: people are aspirational, independent, and have equal access to opportunities; Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is a borough that Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's residents are proud of and love to live in; and Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's borough. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council want people who aspire to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council's 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. Tower Hamlets London Borough Council recognize that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so Tower Hamlets London Borough Council will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council is 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.

Tower Hamlets London Borough Council welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.