Salary: From £51,356 to £55,539 per annum plus relocation support
Grade: N
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire
Are you an experienced Social Work leader who is passionate about making the right decisions for children at the earliest opportunity? Lead the Front Door of an Outstanding Children's Service.
About the service
North Yorkshire Children's Services is proud to be Ofsted Outstanding, and we are looking for an exceptional Team Manager to lead our highly respected Multi Agency Screening Team (MAST) – the front door to Children's Services and a vital part of our early help and safeguarding system.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a well-established multi-agency team that brings together professionals from Social Care, Early Help, Health, Police, Education and Probation to ensure children and families receive the right support, at the right time, from the right service.
The Multi Agency Screening Team receives and screens all contacts relating to children, young people and families across North Yorkshire.
The team has recently undergone significant development, with increased staffing enabling a stronger focus on:
- Meaningful conversations with families and professionals
- Strengths-based practice and Signs of Safety
- Family network identification and safety planning
- Robust threshold decisions
- Multi-agency collaboration and professional challenge
- Ensuring families access the most appropriate support pathway
Our practitioners now spend more time understanding what life is like for children and families, gathering rich information and exploring strengths, risks and support networks before decisions are made. This reflective and relationship-based approach has led to better informed decisions, stronger partnership working and improved outcomes for families.
As we continue to strengthen our Signs of Safety and Strength in Relationships approach, this role offers the chance to shape practice, influence strategic decision-making and lead innovation within one of the most important functions in Children's Services.
About the Role
As Team Manager, you will provide leadership, oversight and direction to a skilled team of Social Workers, practice supervisors and multi-agency partners operating at the front door of Children's Services.
You will lead a culture of curiosity, reflection and high professional standards while ensuring timely and effective decision-making for children and families.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing visible and inspirational leadership across the Multi Agency Screening Team.
- Embedding our Strength in Relationships Practice Model and Signs of Safety approach.
- Overseeing screening decisions, strategy discussions, threshold application and safeguarding responses.
- Supporting practitioners to undertake high-quality, strengths-based conversations with families and professionals.
- Driving continuous improvement through performance monitoring, audit activity and quality assurance.
- Promoting effective multi-agency working with Health, Education, Police, Probation and Early Help partners.
- Developing staff through reflective supervision, coaching and performance management.
- Managing service performance while balancing quality, timeliness and child-centred decision making.
- Contributing to service development, innovation and readiness for future reforms through the Families First Partnership Programme.
What We're Looking For
Make a difference where it matters most. Lead the Front Door. Shape practice. Improve outcomes. Join North Yorkshire's Multi Agency Screening Team.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated leader who can inspire others and champion excellence in safeguarding practice.
You will have:
- Social Work England registration.
- A recognised Social Work qualification.
- Significant experience within children's safeguarding services.
- Previous management or leadership experience within Children's Social Care.
- A strong understanding of threshold decision-making, safeguarding and child protection processes.
- Experience of leading multi-agency working and building effective partnerships.
- Excellent analytical, communication and decision-making skills.
- A commitment to strengths-based practice and achieving the best outcomes for children and families.
- The ability to lead teams through change, development and continuous improvement.
Experience within Front Door, MASH or Screening services would be particularly advantageous.
If you are an ambitious leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, values collaborative working and wants to make a lasting difference for children and families, we'd love to hear from you.
It is an exciting time in Children and Young Peoples Services in North Yorkshire as we plan our approach in respect of the Families First Partnership Programme and how we will be responding to the social care reforms. Work is underway to plan our approach and implementations for 2027. As a result of this, some realignment may happen with job roles in the future, we want to be transparent about this in respect of this role.
For an informal discussion about this role and the service please contact Heidi Ransome, GM Access and Multiple Vulnerabilities [email protected]
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Key dates
Closing Date: 9th August 2026
Interview date: w/c 17th August 2026
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Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to this commitment.
