The role
We are looking for a deputy team manager who can offer exemplary leadership, management, and professional guidance to a team of social workers, and where required other practitioners, both directly and within their team.
You will ensure the delivery of a high-quality, comprehensive, integrated, strong based, and person-centred social work service within Southwark’s Practice Framework.
You will promote and govern excellent social work practice, including assessing needs, support planning and working purposefully with individuals, their families, support networks and other professionals to safeguard Adults and their carers, whilst promoting positive outcomes.
You will ensure the delivery of a social work service that is both strength-based and responsive to the needs of adults, their families and social networks in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines. You will promote, lead and manage the development of excellent and confident practitioners.
In return, we will offer a comprehensive training program that can be tailored to your individual learning needs. We will also support you by offering reflective supervision, mentorship, manageable caseloads, and administrative support.
Join us and you’ll find a career few can match for positive impact and progress.
About you:
You will have:
• Experience of managing or supporting an inter-professional team, setting priorities, undertaking supervision and undertaking performance
• Expert knowledge of key legislation, Social Work theories and guidance with demonstrable ability to apply this to practice.
• Ability to supervise and/or manage a cohort of social care practitioners. This may include workers from different professional backgrounds, Newly Qualified Social workers and student placements.
• Ability to take responsibility for the professional learning and development of others through supervision, mentoring, assessing, research, teaching and leadership.
• Experience of working with people with Learning Disabilities.
• High-quality written and verbal skills, with an ability to collate and analyse complex information, and produce clear, good-quality data.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and with multiple agencies to facilitate holistic assessments and working collaboratively to support people to achieve their goals and maximize independence.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional salary details
For more information about social worker visit https://www.southwarkadultsocialcarejobs.co.uk/career-pathway/social-worker/
Please note a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at enhanced level.
Applicants must hold a recognised Social Worker qualification and registered with Social Work England.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Sunday 10th December 2023 at 23:59
Interviews and Assessment date: Wednesday 20th December 2023
SWCHTF
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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