Social Work Team Manager - Continuing Healthcare

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About the role

Are you an experienced Team Manager, or interested in the opportunity to progress, with a background in adult social care?

An exciting opportunity for a permanent, full time, Team Manager in our adult Continuing Healthcare Team is available.

You will be a confident leader who will hold the key responsibility for managing the delivery of high-quality professional practice in line with legislative frameworks, policies and standards, ensuring that statutory, national, and local performance targets are met.

A working knowledge and application of the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (2022) is essential.

The Continuing Healthcare Team are a county-wide team based in Huntingdon. We work in partnership with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board (ICB) to determine individuals' eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare through joint completion of the NHS Continuing Healthcare process.

The team also complete Care Act 2014 Assessments, Reviews, Mental Capacity Act 2005 Assessments and Best interest Decisions (where applicable) identifying individuals' needs and supporting the multidisciplinary team's recommendation on eligibility for NHS Continuing Healthcare. Where individuals are not eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare but are eligible for care and support from Cambridgeshire County Council in line with the Care Act 2014, you will implement this.

In addition, the role may involve supporting Cambridgeshire County Council's Adult Social Care workforce to improve their confidence, skills, and knowledge in relation to NHS Continuing Healthcare. You will provide training, coaching, mentoring and advice to staff in relation to the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care (2022).

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Aileen Stanford on 07776 679563 or Aileen.Stanford@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

What will you be doing?

The role is varied on a day-to-day basis and allows for a high level of multi-agency working, creativity and autonomy. You will be part of an established group of team managers working across our adult social care services. You will manage a team of senior social workers, social workers and adult support coordinators, providing robust leadership, guidance and good quality support.

You should be able to professionally utilise a strengths-based approach, and be able to make evidence-based decisions to promote the safety of others.

The service is busy, lively and interesting and would ideally suit a manager who is proactive and adaptable in leading a team, and who has a passion for ensuring that the adults receiving care and support in our area receive a positive experience when having their needs met.

About you

You must be a registered Social Worker with experience of managing people and performance. You will also have some experience of leading and managing change. You will be able to influence the workings of other services, and you will be a skilled communicator who can work with competing demands for services.

Experience of working with adults with care and support needs and carers is essential along with a good understanding of the underpinning legislative frameworks which guide practice, including The Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Continuing Health Care guidance.

You will be able to travel independently between locations within Cambridgeshire, including to locations which are not on public transport routes.

For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification attached.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage...

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• Team Manager Adult Social Care v3.pdf