Team Lead

The Team

The Family Safeguarding Adult Team is integrated into Children's Social Care services, providing intervention with parents & carers to actively support change, with the intention to help more children to live safely at home.

We are looking for a Team Lead to support the Family Safeguarding Adult team and lead the provision of the adult mental health and wellbeing intervention. Responsible to the Service Leader, the post holder will lead the team in all aspects of practice and development.

The Role

You will be responsible for supporting adult specialist workers to assess need and carry out specialist interventions to improve outcomes for families, safeguarding the wellbeing of vulnerable children and their parents/carers. This includes helping to develop skill and confidence in working with adult mental health needs across the children's social care workforce and to maintain a positive network with existing adult services in Portsmouth.

Please see the Job profile attached for full details of the role

Hybrid working attendance requirements - This role is office based

The ideal candidate

We are looking for a qualified registered social worker with significant experience and expertise working with parents/carers affected by their mental health and wellbeing. We need a professional who has a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the value of intervention and support with families, including vulnerable adults who are parents. The Family Safeguarding Adult team will be working predominantly with parents where concerns about their mental health, substance misuse and/or domestic abuse is having a detrimental impact on their parenting ability and capacity to change in order to meet the needs of their children. Some parents may also have learning needs.

You will have/be

A relevant Social Work qualification and be registered with a relevant professional body.

Substantial post qualification experience of work with adults who experience mental health and wellbeing needs. Experience of intervention with adults with vulnerabilities associated with substance misuse, domestic abuse, and or learning needs would be advantageous.

Experience of working with adults who are parents / carers and have individual needs that impact adversely on their parenting and capacity to change.

The skills to be a confident and competent manager and be able to model the values and behaviours that are consistent with a restorative, relational approach. Take an active role in contributing to the development of an integrated model and support the Service Lead to manage any challenges that arise as part of cultural change.

Confident in applying relevant theory and research to enhance practice. Promote learning and development through providing advice, guidance and support, including facilitating restorative meetings, reflective practice sessions, supervision and training.

Able to take responsibility for self-directed learning and evidence effective professional growth. Be able to contribute to staff development through coaching and mentoring.

Able to manage stress and assist others in prioritising work and balancing competing demands/pressures. Committed to staff wellbeing and support staff to develop coping strategies and access appropriate wellbeing services.

Demonstrate a healthy professional curiosity and generosity of spirit to ensure that vulnerable people receive support and intervention to be safe, valued and respected.

Have a good working knowledge and experience of promoting anti-discriminatory practice and actively addressing equality of opportunity.

Please ensure that you read the full job profile attached for the details and expectations of this role, paying particular attention the section 'Who is the person' as you will need to refer to this when completing your Personal statement on your application.

Application process

We anonymise applications during application & shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

As part of your application, we ask that you complete apersonal statement, this statement is crucial and is where you must demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the job against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person'points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills.This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience.

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal. We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

About Portsmouth City Council

What we can offer you:

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Partnership safer recruitment procedures.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800