Integrated Neighbourhood Team Manager

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Job Description

• Suffolk County Council - Constantine House, Ipswich, IP1 2DH - Hybrid
• £45,380 per annum (pro rata if part time)
• 37 hours per annum - Flexible working options available
• Secondment for 18 months

Your role and responsibilities

We have an opportunity for a registered Health or Social Care professional, to join our Ipswich West Integrated Neighbourhood Team as an Integrated Neighbourhood Team Manager (INT Manager).

Based in the stunning county of Suffolk, you will hold a key role to support the development of integrated working across Health and Social Care through the development and management of the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, including the associated Connect. You will have joint accountability to Adult Social Care in Ipswich and East Suffolk and to East Suffolk and North East Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT).

Collocated in Constantine House Ipswich, this role covers the geography of West Ipswich.

The main purpose of your role will be to develop, directly manage and lead the Integrated Neighbourhood Team, reporting to Senior Management teams across both organisations. Responsibility for leading on specific clinical/care governance activity will lie with you, which will include the setting and monitoring of standards and performance, responding to complaints, staff support, learning, development, supervision, and the implementation of policy and clinical guidelines.

You will oversee the implementation of the health and care strategy at the neighbourhood level working closely with all partners including primary care, acute care, specialist services, mental health services, housing, the voluntary sector, and care providers.

The team

There are 8 Integrated Neighbourhood Teams across Ipswich and East Suffolk bringing Health and Social Care Services together to provide a single coordinated care response that is underpinned by prevention, self-care, early intervention, reablement and rehabilitation rather than longer-term treatment and lifelong service dependency.

The role will be key in building relationships within the Connect community.

Empowering Everyone

We're big believers in potential, possibility and the power of different ideas. We're always searching for ways to encourage, respect and enable everyone to be the best they can be. We want to represent the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals, especially those from groups that are currently underrepresented in the organisation, as shown in our Workforce Equality Report

For more information

Please contact:

• Louise Caesar (she/her) by emailing louise.caesar@suffolk.gov.uk or calling 07850 883220
• Sam Mwangi by emailing Samuel.Mwangi@suffolk.gov.uk or calling 07706671611.

If you want to apply for a secondment, read the secondment policy first. Make sure you get permission from your current manager before submitting your application.

How to apply

Step 1 - Read the Job and Person Profile (JPP) (docx).

Step 2 - Click 'Apply Now' to start your online application.

Step 3 - Upload asupporting statement indicating how you meet each of the criteria in the 'Person Profile' section of theJPP.

• You should use the Supporting Statement template.
• Please use Arial font size 11 and keep your statement to a maximum of two sides of A4.

Please note: Without a supporting statement, your interest will not be progressed. Any supporting documents must be in either PDF or MS Word format.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process before the next selection stage, please contact our Recruitment Team by emailingrecruitment@suffolk.gov.ukor calling 03456 014412. If you are invited to the next stage of selection, you will have another opportunity to request adjustments for the next stages of the process.

Closing date: 11.30pm, 28 October 2024.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts. #LI-Hybrid

About Us

As a modern and effective council, we offer a wide variety of careers to suit people with a range of skills, abilities and ambitions. We offer working options that flex to reflect the way people work today and take the time to understand and support your individual needs. We're driven to make a positive difference to the world around us and encourage everyone with drive and focus to join us and build an influential and impactful career. Reimagine the possibilities.

In return, you'll enjoy:

• up to 29 days annual leave entitlement (pro rata), plus UK bank holidays and two paid volunteering days
• membership of a competitive Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits
• performance-related annual pay progression, in addition to an annual cost-of-living pay increase
• training and encouragement to expand your knowledge
• a variety of career development opportunities across our organisation
• diverse and active staff networks
• flexible working options, with the right to request flexible working from your first day

Plus lots more!

If you want to know more about our benefits, values and equality commitments please visit our Suffolk County Council careers website (careers.Suffolk.gov.uk).