We are recruiting for the role of AssistantService Manager in our Private law team covering the London area.
We trust and empower colleagues to work in a hybrid way, providing the resources, equipment, and support, so that individually and collectively, we can be the voice of children and young people when the family court makes critical decisions about their futures.
While these roles are contractually based in either our Gray’s Inn Road office or Croydon office, we support flexible working which means your proximity to the office doesn’t need to be a deciding factor, however, there will be a requirement to travel frequently for this role including regular attendance at the office.
We are a diverse, inclusive organisation that is a safe space for colleagues with shared aspects of identity and lived experience, which helps ensure we provide a service which promotes the diversity and uniqueness of children and families from all backgrounds. We especially welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds as we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity of the children and families we work with.
We provide extensive wellbeing support for colleagues, as well as excellent benefits, all of which we hope encourages you to join us.
Let us tell you a bit more about the role…
Being an Assistant Service Manager is very rewarding but as you would expect, challenging too. You will manage a team of Family Court Advisers and have a good understanding of what good looks like in Public and Private law cases.
Through your own practice and reflective/case supervision of colleagues, you will consistentlyreflect and champion the values and core practiceof our practice framework,‘Together with Children and Families’.
As an Assistant Service Manager, it is yourduty to safeguard and protect thewelfare of children,and the support you provide to colleagues to achieve the same standards of safeguardingpractice.
Providing high-quality reflective case supervision, you will be accountable for your own practice andfor the quality and impact ofthe practice quality standards of the Family Court Advisers you directly manage.
… and what we’re looking for.
As well as being registered with Social Work England, you’ll be organised, resilient, and have some experience of supervising, coaching, or mentoring socialworkers.
You will promote resilience and wellbeing at work, maintaining morale and be confident in managing employees with a wide range of professional experience.
You will be a good communicator both orally and in writing, with emotional intelligence, atall levels and especially when interacting with children.
Closing date:7th October 2026
Finally, in anticipation of your application being successful, you might want to read about the offer and pre-employment checks process. As part of your application you can highlight any concerns or questions about the pre-employment checks and we encourage all applicants to do so, safe in the knowledge such information will not be shared with individuals involved in the selection process.
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