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The role

The Integrated Early Years Service (Camden Sure Start) has an ambitious vision for young children and families in the borough in which integrated universal and targeted services are developed and delivered through strong relationships between midwives, health visitors and GPs, early education providers, Job Centre Plus, primary schools, voluntary sector organisations and parents. Based on local need, services are delivered from children’s centres and across a network of community buildings, in five localities covering the whole of Camden.

Children Centers offer local families a broad range of services provided across a Camden Sure Start network of children’s centres, early education and childcare settings and other community buildings. This network has enabled an integrated approach to delivering support and responding to the breadth of families’ needs, such as health, housing, education and employment. The Children Centres offer is part of Camden’s Early Help services which focuses on making interventions at an early stage, once problems for children have begun but before they escalate. It involves taking a joined-up, multilevel, holistic approach to reduce the potential for poor longterm outcomes for children and their families.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Deputy Manager to join our multi-disciplinary Integrated Family Support (FW) and Health Visiting (HV) Service. The successful candidate will lead and manage Family Workers (FWs), within a combined HV and FS team, maintaining a focus on high quality services, positive customer experience and better outcomes.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

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To be considered for this fantastic opportunities the successful candidate will have gained a relevant qualification in either Social Work or Early Years or possess substantial experience in a similar post including significant experience of managing a team delivering family support case work for families with children (pregnancy to age 5). The ideal candidate will have previous demonstrable experience of managing and delivering high quality family support, including for families with highly complex needs, challenging circumstances and especially for the most disadvantaged

Working for Camden

We’re ready to welcome your ideas, your views, and your rebellious spirit. Help us redefine how we’re supporting people, and we’ll redefine what a career can be.

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits as well as joining a flexible working employer. Click HERE to see full details of our benefits.

Additional information

To view the Job Profile, please click https://camdengov.referrals.selectminds.com/togetherwearecamden/jobs/deputy-manager-family-services-1872

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application you will be required to demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Job Profile.

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Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG