Team Manager
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall / Hybrid; (Coalville / Hybrid for the Hinckley post)
Salary: Grade 13 £47,694 - £52,155 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 10th March 2025
Due to recent appointments, we have four management vacancies across Leicestershire County Council. These are exciting opportunities to manage social care teams in our Mental Health and C&PD (Cognitive and Physical Disability) services. Details of these services are below.
Team Manager (4 posts):
• Mental Health Hinckley
• Mental Health Melton
• C&PD Melton
• C&PD Charnwood
About the Role:
You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of a team mix of Community Reablement Workers (CRW) who deliver Reablement work and Community Support Workers who undertake Care Act assessment, support planning, commission eligible services, and case management, and Social Workers/AMHP who are responsible for more complex work including Care Act Assessment, Safeguarding, Self Neglect, Mental Capacity Assessments/Best Interests decisions, Court work. This is in addition to connecting people to their communities and neighbourhood resources.
• To ensure that staff can provide good outcomes for people by implementing the department's operating model and ways of working to deliver social care
• To provide technical and professional support to team members
• To improve ways of working for staff by supporting and implementing improved working between teams and partner agencies
• To manage staffing budgets and staff performance using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity, capability and delivery
• To ensure the effective management of team performance and resources
• To provide performance and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and the Head of Service
Mental Health Locality and Reablement:
Provides support for all adults from the age of 18 who approach LCC for social care support in relation to either Mental Health or Substance Misuse Support. The Service will work to a social model of Mental Health, but the expectation is that people are likely to need specialist support on the basis of their mental health and substance use. This support is provided on the basis of guidance as laid out in the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Health Act 1983 to promote well-being and independence. There is an MDT approach across Health and Social Care, working in a strengths based, recovery focussed model.
Cognitive and Physical Disability (C&PD):
Support for adults with physical disabilities and older people with eligible needs related to frailty and cognitive disabilities, arising from long term conditions such as Dementia, Stroke, Parkinson's Disease and Brain Injury. The service will support adults with early onset dementia including alcohol related dementia where the primary need is linked to needs arising from dementia rather than alcohol dependency. Longer- term and more complex work will be done in the C&PD teams, with short term interventions being the responsibility of the Home First service.
The focus of C&PD work is to promote independence and opportunities with a focus on outcomes that promote wellbeing.
Locality based C&PD teams include Community Support Worker, Social Worker and AHMP posts and will be responsible for Care Act Assessment, Safeguarding, VARM, Mental Capacity Assessments/Best Interests decisions and Court work.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
• Have a sound knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and of managing Social Workers holding complex caseloads
• Experience of stakeholder and relationship management
• Experience of business planning
• Proven experience in budget management and in delivering significant efficient savings
• Theoretical, practical and procedural knowledge of social work and social care legislation, policy and best practice
• An understanding of, and commitment to Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations
We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Anne Goodwin (Hinckley) anne.goodwin@leics.gov.uk
Aiden Neaves (Charnwood) aiden.neaves@leics.gov.uk
Nina Manning (Melton) nina.manning@leics.gov.uk
About Us
About Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.
Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.
For further information on what it's like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:
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