Hackney’s Children and Families Services offer visionary leadership, a culture of continuous learning and a climate for innovation. We are committed to outcomes for our children and families, recognising the impact of discrimination and disadvantage that many of our families experience. For these reasons, systemic, trauma informed, and anti-racist practice (STAR) is our practice model ensuring a social justice approach whilst creating change. We will offer exciting leadership learning and development opportunities to embed STAR and expect you to lead exemplary anti-racist, trauma informed and systemic services.
As the Anti-Racist Practice Lead, you will contribute to the shaping of a confident, professional, and respectful service that always places children at the centre of practice. Your strong leadership skills will enable you to engage social workers, managers, and senior leads to embed the very best anti-racist practice based upon research, quality assurance, and feedback from our children and families to ensure that we achieve the very best outcomes for children in Hackney. You will have an in-depth understanding of the impact of racism upon our children and families, think strategically about creating systems change, and embed consistent and effective anti-racist practice across services.
You will be responsible and accountable for ensuring that learning is systematically embedded, contribute to quality assurance of practice, and support strategic change in order that our services for Children and Families become outstanding.
A strong practitioner and leader with a proven capacity to create service-wide change in the interests of children and families, you will be dedicated to our STAR approach, committed to child-centred safeguarding practices, and to identifying and challenging racism and other forms of discrimination. You will be creative, analytical, and reflective and be willing to work hard to improve outcomes for children and young people. You will have excellent communication, negotiation, and diplomacy skills to effectively create change.
You are required to hold a relevant social work qualification or similar professional qualification (e.g., clinical therapeutic, youth work, teaching, etc.), combined with substantive experience of supervising and leading practice.
An enhanced DBS check is required.
Closing date for applications: 02 March 2025 (22.59).
Interview and assessment date: 27 March 2025.
Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently underrepresented in our workforce.
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