Assessment Team Manager; Children's Services

Assessment Team Manager (Children's Services)

Walthamstow, Greater London, United Kingdom

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Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Retention Bonus: Up to £3,000 (terms & conditions apply)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Working hours per week: 36

Final date to receive applications: 13/01/2026

Proposed Interview Dates: TBC

Reference: 1967

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a welcoming and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have tight-knit and diverse communities. Our work is always resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded: we’re a borough focused on meeting and exceeding the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace wellbeing, skills, progression and diversity.

We're seeking dedicated, qualified and experienced team manager to join our Assessment teams.

We are a supportive, focused, and inspirational service. Our shared purpose is to nurture independence and freedom of choice in our children, young people, and families, helping them to achieve the best possible outcomes. All our staff work together to build and maintain a centre of excellence and best practice. In return for your hard work, we will give you the time and active support you need to make a difference.

Promoting creativity is at the heart of our agenda to develop social work; you will be encouraged to share ideas, bring about positive change, and strive to continuously improve outcomes for our vulnerable children and young people.

• Build a highly competent, effective, motivated and outcome focused team.
• Provide a trusting and supportive environment for staff to feel a sense of shared responsibility and camaraderie. Encourage staff to share their experiences and seek support from their peers.
• Complete recruitment, induction, development, performance reviews, employee relations and all HR processes and planning to the required standards and timescales.
• Ensure effective team meetings take place to required timescales.
• Ensure the workforce development strategy is implemented, including the induction of new staff.
• Regular supervision is undertaken, and clear objectives set and monitored through the Council’s Appraisal process.
• Use resources including equipment, people, and systems optimally and efficiently.
• Plan, develop and deliver the annual budget. Maximise value for money.
• Control financial expenditure and financial integrity to assure regulatory and Council policy compliance.
• Prepare, distribute and present reports to the appropriate committee to the required standards and timescales.
• Make evidence-based recommendations.
• Take overall responsibility for quantitative and qualitative performance management for the Team.
• Analyse and utilise reports to understand and improve the performance and productivity of individuals and the team.
• Adapt supervision to be cognizant of supervises’ cultural orientation, background and values.
• Identify performance issues and take timely action to remedy them.
• Work in partnership with HR to manage and resolve performance issues within Council procedures.

• Proven social work experience/placement in children and families setting with experience in managing a team of social workers.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of issues relating to looked-after children, including relevant legislation, guidance, and procedures.
• Experience of service delivery which is culturally sensitive and responsive to the needs of a multi-cultural community.
• Able to prioritise and effectively work under pressure.
• Managing a quality service by ensuring key performance indicators relating to service areas are met and that robust monitoring processes are in place to monitor your team’s performance and that measures…