Social Work Team Manager - Adults Community Team

Location London
Job type Contract
Salary £43.18 - 43.18 per hour
Consultant Jonathan Codona-Brown
Call +44 7723 494368
Reference 205278

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Team Manager to join a well-established Adults service based in Hammersmith & Fulham, London.

Team/Specialism: Adults Community Team 

Pay Rate: £43.18 per hour (assignment rate)

Contract: Locum, 3-Months

Hours: Full-time

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  • Professional Development: Working as a locum provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.

Main Duties:

  • To lead, motivate, nurture and manage a frontline team within the Adult Social Care Directorate, ensuring the service provided is effective and delivering positive outcomes.
  • To ensure that services provided by the team are compliant with current legislation, guidance and policies, and to take responsibility for practice standards, customer service, performance and quality assurance.
  • To promote practice and culture that supports a strength based, asset-based service model, and outcomes for residents are person centred and support independent living.
  • To have overall responsibility and accountability for the day to day management and practice of the team, ensuring that processes are streamlined, and resources are efficiently deployed.
  • The role holder will lead, establish and maintain local and/or borough-wide joint working relationships with other service providers, partner agencies and other stakeholders ensuring that the views and needs of residents, carers and family members are considered in the development and delivery of services.
  • Line manage and supervise social workers and be accountable for supply, succession, recruitment, retention and management of staff
  • Manage the delivery of services as part of a care pathway, including links to associated services, in line with legislation, policy and practice guidance,
  • Ensure that services are delivered to a high quality, in line with budget and to the satisfaction of the residents they are provided to, their families and carers.

Requirements of the Team Manager:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Recent managerial experience, working as a TM, DTM or ATM etc.
  • Significant frontline experience in Adults Services

Contact: This Team Manager job is advertised by Jonathan Codona-Brown; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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.