Assistant Hub Manager – Specialist Intensive Worker Hub
Location: Cambridge Road Centre & Park House (covering Hart & Rushmoor and East Hants)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Initial 6 months
About the role
We are looking for a passionate and motivated Assistant Hub Manager to help lead our Specialist Intensive Worker Hub in the North East of Hampshire. This is a unique opportunity to play a key leadership role in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team delivering intensive, targeted support to families with complex needs.
Our aim is simple but powerful: to help children remain safely at home with their families and achieve lasting positive change.
What you’ll be doing
Leadership and team development
- Support the day-to-day leadership of the Intensive Worker team across Hart & Rushmoor and East Hants
- Line manage and develop staff, fostering a positive, high‑performing team culture
- Lead team meetings, facilitate peer supervision, and hold personal and case supervision for up to 14 Intensive Workers monthly, providing quality assurance.
- Identify training and development needs and support staff to build confidence and capability
- Ensure consistent, high-quality practice across the team
- Work collaboratively with co-located specialist professionals (e.g. CAMHS, Inclusion), providing support and coordination within the team
Case management and practice leadership
- Hold a small, complex caseload, delivering effective, strengths‑based interventions
- Provide advice and guidance to staff on casework decisions and challenges
- Support the management of safeguarding and child protection concerns, escalating as appropriate
- Deputise for the Hub Manager in case discussions, panels and multi‑agency meetings
Service coordination and delivery
- Oversee the allocation and prioritisation of cases based on need and staff expertise
- Coordinate specialist parenting assessments and ensure high‑quality reporting
- Support the delivery of targeted interventions across the districts
- Ensure cases are progressed and closed in line with service standards
Performance and improvement
- Support performance monitoring, reporting and analysis of service activity
- Work with colleagues to develop innovative approaches and improve outcomes for families
- Promote reflective practice and continuous improvement across the team
About you
You will be an experienced practitioner with a strong track record of working with children and families with complex needs. You’ll bring a passion for relationship-based practice and a drive to deliver meaningful, lasting change.
Essential knowledge and experience
- Strong understanding of the statutory framework for Children’s Services, including Levels 2-4 interventions
- Experience working with children and families facing complex challenges
- Experience of coordinating support and working within multi‑disciplinary environments
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding responsibilities, thresholds, and best practice approaches
Skills and abilities
- Confident leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop others
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across agencies
- Strong organisational and decision-making abilities, with the capacity to manage competing demands
- High-quality assessment and report-writing and reviewing skills
- Competent IT skills, including case management systems (e.g. MOSAIC) and Microsoft Office
Personal qualities
- Passionate about improving outcomes for children and families
- Resilient, adaptable, and solution-focused
- Collaborative and committed to partnership working
- Dedicated to high standards of practice and continuous improvement
Additional requirements- Ability to travel across Hart & Rushmoor and East Hants to meet service needs
- This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check
What we offer
- A supportive and forward-thinking leadership team
- Flexible working arrangements where possible
- Reflective monthly supervision
- An experienced well-established team
Connect2Hampshire is a trading style of Hampshire & Kent Commercial Services LLP – A joint venture between Hampshire County Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Hampshire is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
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