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Team Leader – Children’s Social Care

Employer
Harrow Council
Location
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Salary
£56,886 to £63,867
Closing date
9 Jul 2018

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Team Leader – Children’s Social Care (based in Buckinghamshire)

(Salary MG3 £56,886 to £63,867)

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Team Leader to manage one of our established Children’s Social Care Teams, based in our Aylesbury office. 

HB Public Law is one of the country’s leading local authority legal practices and has offices in Harrow and Aylesbury.  We are a Lexcel and IIP Gold accredited practice and pride ourselves on delivering a high quality service to six local authority clients, schools and other public bodies in London and the South East.  

This is an exceptional opportunity for you to play a key role undertaking varied, high quality work with like minded and supportive colleagues who are dedicated to public service and making a difference in local communities.

About the position

The successful candidate will be expected to lead and develop an existing and highly motivated team, as well as to personally undertake matters of a more complex nature.  We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Team Leader with an ability to support our client teams, with a proven ability to develop others.

Duties will include, but will not be limited to the following:

  • Advising senior officers and elected members in a proactive and politically sensitive manner;
  • Overseeing and advising complex cases in all areas of child protection and SEN;
  • Supporting the strategic development of HB Public Law jointly with the other Team Leaders and Principal Lawyers. 

 

 

The role will be based primarily in our Buckinghamshire office, there will be travel required to our Harrow office, clients’ offices and Courts, including occasional evening meetings.

About you

The successful candidate will not only have extensive previous children’s social care experience but will also be passionate about teamwork and developing others.  A high level of client contact will be involved in this role and therefore it is essential that you exhibit good client care skills and can build strong working relationships with others.

Applications

The closing date for all applications is Monday 9th July 2018 and these should be made via the Harrow Council website: https://harrow.advorto.com/search.aspx?l=HarrowCouncil

If you would like a confidential conversation about the opportunity please call Hayley Norman-Thorpe on 020 8416 8756 or Jessica Farmer on 020 8424 1889.  

Company

Harrow is one of London's most economic, culturally diverse and vibrant suburbs. It is an area that combines the fast pace of a lively business and commercial centre with the peace and quiet of the countryside. Harrow has a range of shopping facilities, plus sport and leisure activities to suit all tastes. As an employee at Harrow Council you can partake in the following:

  • Flexible working
  • Annual leave
  • Health and well-being programme
  • Staff benefit scheme
  • Learning and development
  • Pension scheme

 

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