Team Manager - Community Wellbeing Teams - Hospital Social Care Team

As a Team Manager you will lead and manage a team of staff including qualified Social Workers. Hospital discharge is a fast paced environment, and the team works to clearly defined targets and deadlines. Consequently, you will play a key role in ensuring the timely completion of assessments and effective discharge planning. This will also involve you developing positive, supportive relationships with partner agencies, including the acute hospital trust.

• Lead and manage the team of social workers and staff.
• Ensure timely completion of assessments and effective discharge planning.
• Develop positive relationships with partner agencies and the acute hospital trust.
• Monitor the team's budget and ensure best value for care packages and placements.
• Support the team to adopt enabling approaches and maintain minimum levels of intervention where required.
• Participate on the managers on call rota, approximately one Saturday every nine weeks.

• Recognised social work qualification and registration with Social Work England.
• Extensive experience as a social worker in an adult social care setting.
• Ideal experience at deputy or team manager level.
• Strong supervisory and budget management skills.

• Range of staff benefits to support you in and out of work.
• Flexible work patterns and family friendly policies.
• Special leave provisions and flexible ways of working across the council.

To support you in your role there are two Deputy Team Managers who provide the majority of supervision to the frontline staff. Change management skills are vital to ensure that changes are embraced positively by your team, whilst fostering a creative ethos to guarantee vulnerable adults are supported with care that is individual to them. You will also have regular supervision from your Line Manager, an annual appraisal, and a full induction plan when you commence in post.