Team Manager – Family Safeguarding Team (Permanent)

Team Manager – Family Safeguarding Team (Permanent)

Location: London Borough of Lambeth (Hybrid working available)
Salary: £56,436 – £59,574 + London weighting (dependent on experience)
Annual Retention of £4,700
Contract: Permanent

Pro Social Partners are proud to be working in partnership with Lambeth Council to recruit an experienced Team Manager to lead a Family Safeguarding Team within Children’s Social Care.

Lambeth has embedded the Family Safeguarding model across its services, placing relationship-based, strengths-led, and multi-disciplinary practice at the centre of everything it does. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a confident and values-driven leader to shape practice, support staff, and deliver meaningful outcomes for children and families.

The Role
As Team Manager within the Family Safeguarding Team, you will:
Provide strong operational leadership and day-to-day management of a team of Social Workers and Advanced Practitioners.
Ensure high-quality, child-focused practice across assessment, safeguarding, and child protection work.
Offer clear management oversight, decision-making, and direction on complex cases.
Embed and champion the Family Safeguarding model, ensuring strengths-based and trauma-informed practice is consistently applied.
Lead and chair strategy discussions, complex meetings, and contribute to multi-agency safeguarding forums.
Drive performance, quality assurance, and continuous practice improvement within the team.
Support staff through regular reflective supervision, appraisal, and professional development.
Work closely with Service Managers and partner agencies to deliver safe, timely, and effective interventions.

About You
You will be an experienced and resilient leader with:
A recognised Social Work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
Significant post-qualifying experience within Children’s Social Care, with strong safeguarding and child protection expertise.
Proven experience of managing and developing social work teams.
Sound knowledge of statutory frameworks, Working Together guidance, and Family Safeguarding practice.
The ability to make confident, timely decisions in complex and high-risk situations.
Strong leadership, communication, and practice improvement skills.

Why Lambeth Council?
A progressive authority with Family Safeguarding fully embedded across Children’s Services.
Supportive senior leadership and a clear vision for high-quality practice.
A strong emphasis on reflective supervision, learning, and staff wellbeing.
Competitive salary with London weighting and flexible, hybrid working arrangements.
Opportunities to influence service development and shape the future of safeguarding practice in Lambeth.

Location: Lambeth | Salary: £56436 - £59574 per year | Job type: Permanent | Posted: 16/12/2025