Assistant Team Manager Social Work

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Job Description

Assistant Team Manager - Adults Intermediate Care Team

Salary: Band 11- £44,428 - £48,474p.a.

37 hours per week

Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth is a vibrant university city, with a rich maritime history on the South coast enjoying excellent transport links to the rest of the country.

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city, but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

Portsmouth Local Authority is committed to supporting the independence and well-being of its residents and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The Service

There have been exciting changes within Portsmouth Adults Intermediate Care Team which means we have an Assistant Team Manager vacancy to fill.. The new service went live on 1st April 2024 and has brought together a number of teams to provide a single approach to supporting people who are moving through admission avoidance, the acute hospital, inpatient settings, and rehabilitation and reablement services. This is an exciting time to join us and help us on our journey to improving outcomes for people following a crisis or decline in health.

This post is based within the Portsmouth Adults Intermediate Care Team supporting our integrated services including, Community nursing, Urgent Community Response, Portsmouth Rehabilitation and Reablement team, The Transfer of Care Hub, the acute Hospital and Inpatient units. We deliver a high-quality service and those who use the service are at the heart of everything we do. We pride ourselves on our Home first model enabling our staff to work creatively and proactively with people and their carers to remain living the lives they chose. Our staff are supported in their roles and encouraged to develop.

What is the role

We are looking for an experienced Assistant Team Manager who can support us on our improvement journey. You will need to be able to operate with a high level of autonomy and authority using a wide range of evidence-based social work interventions and tools. You will provide a high degree of professional support to staff, leading on practice development to improve performance and quality of service delivery and ensure integrated, multi-agency working is at the heart of improving outcomes for adults with care and support needs. You will consistently demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the full range of social work tasks, particularly in relation to Adult Safeguarding, adults with complex care and support needs, mental capacity assessments, DoLS and partnership working.

You will be supporting the team manager and line managing a group of social workers and other professionals/practitioners, equipping them to make effective decisions and to be professionally resilient, enabling them to ensure safe and effective outcomes for our residents. This will include undertaking supervision, prioritising resources, monitoring and evaluating service delivery, disseminating best practice, managing individual performance, report writing and supporting practitioners to represent PCC in court when required.

In return we can offer you a supportive management team, learning and development opportunities and an opportunity to shape the way we deliver services.

What you'll need to succeed

You will need to be a Social Worker registered with Social Work England and be passionate about putting people at the heart of what you do, understanding the needs of the client group as well as promoting, and supporting individuals' rights and choices. You will be able to support, educate, and develop practitioners to their full potential but taking the necessary steps to address performance issues when required. Be fully conversant with the Care Act, the Mental Capacity Act, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and other applicable legislation. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work in collaboration with and communicate effectively with service users, staff, peers, professionals, and more senior leaders to ensure we deliver a robust, accountable offer to those that access our service.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

Additional Information:

The full job profile is attached here.

How to complete your application, https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/how-to-apply/

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

Applicants will be shortlisted based on their ability to use good examples that meet the criteria of this role. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' on the main careers site. You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement your application. PLEASE DO NOT JUST SUBMIT A CV.

Closing date: 16th September 2024

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of 'adults at risk' and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.