Service Manager, Assessment & Safeguarding Team

Location Haringey
Job type Permanent
Salary £58,209 - 61,491 per year
Consultant Zehnn Young
Call +44 7723 457338
Reference 201147

 

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Assessment & Safeguarding Team to work full time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Service Manager job is up to £61,491 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To be responsible for the leadership and delivery of efficient, effective, and safe services.
  • To oversee all relevant matters relating to Care Act delivery, working in partnership with colleagues across the Council, Trust, ICB and voluntary sector.
  • Develop and implement strengths-based approach to adult health and social care assessments in order overturn the deficit model and enable the service to empower Haringey citizens, service users and carers to develop resilience, in line with the well-being principles of the care act, and the requirement to delay and reduce the need for statutory intervention.
  • Lead the development of service performance and quality improvement strategies, alongside the Trust.
  • Develop and embed a model of service leadership that inculcates personal accountability, confidence in professional practice and pride in the service to offer to citizens of Haringey.
  • Manage a team of managers responsible for providing assessment, review, safeguarding, duty and be accountable for the performance management and the quality of work undertaken within the service.
  • Maintain excellent relationships with a wide group of key stakeholders, including people who use mental health services, their carers and families, NHS and local authority staff, independent sector providers, and local authority members.
  • Develop and embed results-based accountability (RBA) across the service to enable all staff to measure their own day to day performance in terms of key determinants including effort, service outputs and service user outcomes.
  • Develop and implement outcomes focused support planning and reviews to ensure that statutory resources are proportionately targeted, aimed at establishing a developmental/recovery model of support, which enables all parties to work towards service users achieving their goals and reducing their dependency on the state.
  • To deliver key performance targets whilst maintaining and improving quality.
  • Understanding and commitment to promoting and implementing the Council’s Equal Opportunities policies.
  • To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.

Requirements of this role:

  • A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Extensive experience in management/managing and motivating teams with varying roles and responsibilities and managing others to apply the legislation in strengths-based ways.
  • This post requires registration with the relevant health professional council/governing body (Social Care England).
  • Sound management information systems experience particularly in relation to Adult Social Care’s case management systems and Adult Social Care Processes.

Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.