Team Manager - Extra Care Housing Team

About Us

West Sussex County Council provides services to over 850,000 residents, and we know that our employees are at the heart of our success. We strive to create a dynamic, supportive working environment where you can reach your full potential, maintain a healthy work-life balance, and feel valued for the work you do.

We are seeking a Team Manager for our Extra Care Housing team within Adult Services. Extra Care Housing provides long-term, high-quality care and support for individuals with progressive health conditions. This service is key to reducing reliance on residential and nursing care while offering a more cost-effective and empowering solution for residents.

If you are thinking why join West Sussex, there is a supportive culture that is second to none. You will receive regular and reflective supervision from senior social work colleagues, but you will also need to use your own initiative where appropriate. Employees are genuinely valued, respected and there is an emphasis on work life balance.

About The Job

Salary: £53,350 to £57,005 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Countywide, flexible office base including County Hall North, Horsham
Interview Date: 30th May

As our Social Work Team Manager, you will be responsible for effective leadership and management of an area-based community team. The Team Manager has direct line management responsibility for a team of staff consisting of Social Workers and Assistant Care Managers. We are looking for a leader who role models best practice and provides support and advice for the team, ensuring there are safe working practices in the service. To succeed in this role, you need to be resilient, have previous management experience and have worked in frontline Adult services.

Being a Social Work Team Manager will require you to be confident in working with and offering advice about the statutory requirements of complex pieces of legislation such as the Care Act 2014, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and all related legislation, while leading a strengths-based team and ways of working within the Community-led support model locally known as Supporting Lives, Connecting People. Good managerial abilities are important for
administering a budget and writing proposals. You will demonstrate an authoritative, applied knowledge of the specialist or professional discipline including technical theories and related principles. You will have detailed knowledge of practices and procedures relating to management of discipline.

Good leadership skills are a must, as you will be expected to deputise for the Service / Operations Manager and take a County-wide lead for areas of the service when needed.

Experience and Skills

The following key skills and qualifications will be used as the shortlisting criteria so please cover how you meet each within your application:

Key Skills:
1. Ability to make sound, pragmatic, problem-solving decisions including tackling difficult problems of a technical, professional, resource or people-related nature.
2. Excellent communication skills with ability to influence others and negotiate effective business solutions.
3. Research and knowledge management skills; able to apply project management principles and practices.
4. Leadership, effective people management and performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams during complex situations.
5. Ability to challenge existing practices and identify innovative strength-based solutions
6. Sound and accurate IT skills for general office duties, producing reports and undertaking research.

Qualifications:

• Post graduate professional qualification relevant to the professional service specialism (such as CQSW/CSS/DipSW or BA/MA in Social Work or equivalent).
• Registration with Social Work England
• Relevant chartered status of a professional body or equivalent high-level experience of involved practices.
• Experience of managing and leading staff.
• Experience of managing a small budget and/or contributing to financially related decisions on larger spends.

Rewards and Benefits

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05736.

To apply, upload your CV and complete the application explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to Social Work England registration, an enhanced DBS check, 5 years referencing and a health check.

West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.

For information regarding your eligibility to apply for this role under our Disability or Veteran's Guaranteed Interview Scheme (if you meet all the essential criteria), this can be found on our application help page.

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