Practice Manager, Safeguarding Adult and Independent Living Team
Service: Adult Social Care, OperationsSalary: £52,194 – £55,323 per annum (plus £3,000 annual market supplement)Contract type and working hours: Permanent and Full TimeLocation: Newham Dockside
About the Job
The Safeguarding Adults and Independent Living Team is looking to appoint a highly motivated Practice Manager to provide management support and direction to a small team of social workers with primary responsibility for adult social care operational safeguarding at Newham’s front door safeguarding triaging service.
This role offers an opportunity to develop new skills and deliver a strength and person‑centred approach to safeguarding practice within an inclusive and welcoming environment.
About You
You will need to be a qualified social worker.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing a small team of social workers in partnership with another Practice Manager
- Ensuring high quality and timely triaging and screening of safeguarding concerns
- Acting as a Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) for a small number of safeguarding enquiries and providing high quality strength‑based supervision to team members
- Undertaking and completing high quality audits and contributing to accurate data sets
- Working closely in partnership with adult social care operations teams and with local safeguarding stakeholder partners and agencies (East London Foundation Trust, Barts Health, Police, London Fire Brigade, London Ambulance Service, Newham’s Children and Younger Person Services)
Strong interpersonal skills, empathy, forward thinking and a commitment to enhancing the well‑being of individuals and communities are essential, including understanding of neurodevelopmental diagnoses, rough sleepers, substance use issues, complex mental health diagnoses, domestic abuse, and those with no recourse to public funds. Understanding of local safeguarding multi‑agency risk forums such as MAPPA and MARAC is also required.
Benefits and Development
We offer an exceptionally supportive and collaborative work environment, peer support, individual and group supervision, solid CPD opportunities and a chance to further develop knowledge and skills in a specialist area.
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti‑racist environment. Applications are considered on merits regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation.
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