Social Work Team Manager - MASH

Social Work Team Manager – ECIRS (MASH) – London

Location: London Borough of Ealing
Pay/Salary: Up to £45.20 per hour (Umbrella)
Office Working: Hybrid
Contract: Locum

We are currently working with the London Borough of Ealing to find an experienced Social Work Team Manager for their ECIRS (MASH) Team. This is an excellent opportunity to lead practice at the front door of Children’s Services, managing a team of Social Workers and Senior Practitioners within a fast-paced multi-agency safeguarding environment.

You'll provide strong operational leadership across the service, overseeing referrals and enquiries, making robust threshold decisions and ensuring children and families receive timely and appropriate interventions. You'll also have responsibility for quality assurance, performance and workflow management while supporting the development of confident, high-performing practitioners.

Duties

• Leading, managing and supervising a team of Social Workers and Senior Practitioners within ECIRS/MASH.
• Providing management oversight of incoming contacts, referrals and safeguarding enquiries.
• Making robust threshold decisions and ensuring risk is identified and responded to appropriately.
• Chairing multi-agency discussions and working closely with safeguarding partners to inform decision-making.
• Providing oversight and quality assurance across assessments and statutory interventions.
• Managing performance, workload, workflow and service demand across the team.
• Analysing performance data and ensuring contacts, referrals and assessments progress within agreed timescales.
• Supporting practitioners with complex safeguarding and Child Protection decision-making.
• Promoting continuous improvement and consistently high standards of social work practice.
• Developing effective relationships with statutory, voluntary and multi-agency safeguarding partners.

What you need

• Social Work Qualification.
• Social Work England registration.
• Enhanced DBS (provided by us).
• Previous Team Manager experience within a MASH, Front Door, ECIRS or similar Children’s Services team.
• Strong safeguarding and threshold decision-making experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Child Protection legislation and statutory practice.
• Experience managing and supervising Social Workers and Senior Practitioners.
• Strong performance management, quality assurance and analytical skills.
• Ability to confidently manage service demand within a fast-paced front door environment.

Why use us?

At Sheldon Phillips, you are not just a number on a board, you are someone we get to know, creating a personal job search that is as individual as you are. Our expert team are trained to ensure that your needs are met, our compliance procedures are quick and efficient, while making sure you find the job you really want.

If you are interested in this Social Work Team Manager role in an ECIRS (MASH) Team within Ealing, give Rhys Rafferty a call on 07595 063297 or email rrafferty@sheldon-phillips.com.

Referral Bonus: Know someone who would be a great fit? Refer them to Sheldon Phillips and, if we successfully place them into a locum role, you'll receive a £300 referral bonus as a thank you. Terms and conditions apply.