Team Manager - Adult Social Care Transitions

Description

Grade 15
Salary range: £55,323 - £57,402 p.a. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Croydon

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager role due to internal moves and recruitment. In this role, you will lead a dedicated team focused on promoting independence and empowerment for young people. Your work will have a direct impact on young lives, ensuring that the voices of youth, their parents, and carers shape service delivery. You will drive positive change in collaboration with our partners in Children’s Services, Education, and SEND.

As a leader, you will support Advanced Social Workers, Experienced Social Workers, and Family Support Practitioners, helping them provide tailored support through assessments and plans under the Care Act. You will guide the team to creatively use resources, including technology and community assets, to enable young people to live independently.

Hybrid working from home and from the office is in place, with an office presence 2-3 days a week.

Main Responsibility

In this role you'll:

• Have day to day responsibility for team of social workers and Family Support Workers
• Support the investigation of complaints at stage 1 where the concerns raised are not complex
• Ensure that Care Act and Mental Capacity Act related assessments and decisions are carried out to a high quality and comply with the relevant policies and procedures and take appropriate action where necessary.
• Be responsible for the quality assurance of statutory documents within their scheme of delegated responsibility, ensuring appropriate and proportionate records and documentation are completed in a timely manner in relation the team’s practice
• Line manage Advanced & Experienced Social Workers
• Support to continued develop of the team driving best practice as needed

• Drive and support Key performance indicators

The Ideal Candidate

You'll have:

• High motivation and be a flexible individual with a proven track record of supporting and leading a team.
• Sound knowledge and experience of current legislation and its application in a social care setting.
• Passion about ensuring a smooth and timely transition for young people.
• Applied knowledge of The Care Act and The Mental Capacity Act, with experience in complex safeguarding and professional judgement.
• Excellent communication skills, able to provide professional, reflective supervision, guidance, and advice to front line supervisors, social workers, and family support workers.

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