Team Manager (Adolescent Service)
Plus £4,700 pa Market Supplement
Fixed Term / Secondment Opportunity for 12 months
Full Time / Hybrid Working
About Us
Located in the heart of South London, Lambeth Borough is a vibrant community of over 317,600 residents. Stretching from the dynamic neighbourhood of Streatham in the South to the iconic landmarks of Waterloo in the North, we are proud to be the 9th largest borough in London. Our diversity is our strength, with more than 130 languages spoken, making Lambeth the home of the Windrush generation, London's largest LGBTQ+ community, and a thriving Portuguese-speaking community. It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council, we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeth’s communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan ‘Our Future, Our Lambeth.’ With exceptional schools, lush green spaces including Brockwell Park, cultural gems like the Black Cultural Archives, and world-renowned institutions such as St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth offers an enriching and dynamic environment. Please have a look at our dedicated One Lambeth Values and Behaviours page.
Job Description
Team Manager (Adolescent Service)
PO6: £56,436 pa rising in annual increments to £59,574 pa
Plus £4,700 pa Market Supplement
Fixed Term / Secondment Opportunity for 12 months
Full Time / Hybrid Working
About the Team
Join the Adolescent Early Support Team. Help Us Change the Story for Adolescents. Some young people face increasing challenges long before they meet the threshold for statutory intervention. They may be disengaging from education, experiencing family conflict, becoming vulnerable to exploitation, going missing, associating with risky peer groups, struggling with emotional wellbeing, or becoming involved in low-level offending behaviour. Too often, support comes only after risks have become entrenched.
The Adolescent Early Support Team is a prevention and engagement service for young people aged 11-18, designed to intervene at the point of emerging risk and prevent escalation into crisis or statutory services. Through assertive outreach, trusted relationships and adolescent-centred practice, we support young people to reconnect with education, strengthen family relationships and access positive pathways.
The team will operate as Lambeth's adolescent prevention, early support and engagement service, providing intensive, relationship-based support to adolescents who may not engage with traditional services. The team may offer some services out of hours and during weekends. Our work is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, strengths-based and rooted in contextual safeguarding principles. Crucially for this team, we are also investing in a researcher role to help us understand how we shape the improvements and how we can locally arrange our adolescent services offer in ways that prevent crisis intervention.
Why Join Us
- Help shape an innovative new service from the outset
- Work within a research-led, adolescent-focused model
- Deliver meaningful early intervention and prevention
- Be part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Influence system changes and improve outcomes for young people
- Contribute to a service that aims to reduce harm, inequality and escalation into higher-level services
Lead Practice. Build Relationships. Prevent Escalation.
As a social work qualified Team Manager, you will lead a skilled multi-disciplinary team delivering intensive support to vulnerable adolescents at risk of escalation.
About The Role
- Provide day-to-day leadership and operational management
- Support high-quality adolescent-focused practice
- Oversee risk assessment, planning and intervention
- Promote strong multi-agency working
- Support staff development through reflective supervision and coaching
- Ensure young people receive timely, creative and effective support
About You
- Have experience managing services supporting adolescents
- Understand contextual safeguarding and extra-familial harm
- Be confident leading complex multi-agency interventions
- Demonstrate excellent leadership and decision-making skills
- Inspire a culture of innovation, learning and impact
The Adolescent Early Support Team is more than a new service. It is an opportunity to redesign how we support young people at the point where timely intervention can make the greatest difference.
If you believe in the power of relationships, early intervention and adolescent-focused practice, we would love to hear from you. Join us in helping young people stay safe, stay connected and realise their potential.
Advert closing date: 11:59pm on 9th of August
Contact Information
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Manyara Walker - MWalker1@lambeth.gov.uk
Successful candidates will be asked to apply for an Enhanced Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Further information about the DBS can be found at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs. You will be required to undertake a Cifas check. Further information about Cifas can be found here Cifas.
At Lambeth, we are dedicated to providing quality services and equal opportunities for all. We are committed to safer recruitment and are proud to be a Stonewall diversity champion, a Living Wage Employer, and to guarantee interviews for all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria of the role. For a full list of our accreditations, please click.
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Team Manager (AES) employer: London Borough of Lambeth
The London Borough of Lambeth is an exceptional employer, dedicated to fostering a supportive and collaborative work culture that prioritises the well-being and professional growth of its employees. With a focus on driving practice excellence in Children’s Social Care, staff are provided with ample opportunities for development through training and multi-agency collaboration, all while contributing to meaningful outcomes for the community. Located in vibrant London, employees enjoy a dynamic environment that encourages innovation and engagement.
