About Southwark:
Southwark is an amazingly diverse and vibrant area with a strong sense of community; the estimated population is due to rise by 20% to 360,000 by 2026 making it one of the most densely populated boroughs in the country. We have a young, diverse and multi-cultural population with over 120 languages spoken in Southwark.
Southwark is a borough that brims with confidence and ambition and this is evident in its residents and communities at large. That ambition is also evident on the Council’s Borough Plan and its vision to deliver a fairer future for all. Southwark has a vibrant mix of culture, food, technology, leisure and arts on its doorstep. Historically Southwark was the centre for entertainment and arts for the city, evident by Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. The borough is home to the Tate Modern, The Shard, Dulwich Picture House Gallery, Borough Market, and has recently welcomed one of London’s newest international theatre at One London Bridge. Southwark is in the heart of London and has excellent transport links and access to central London and the South East.
Older People and Physical Disabilities (OPPD) is comprised of a wide range of services. Teams include colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds including Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and non-professionally qualified staff. They work with adults with physical disability, older persons, adults with dementia and carers. This inter-professional approach allows the sharing of skills to ensure that professions work flexibly and constructively to support our residents and carers. We aim to deliver a high quality, safe, strength based service, promoting and improving independence, ensuring comprehensive person-centred assessments, reviews and interventions, supporting court work (where required) and ensuring residents are safeguarded enabling choice and control regarding their accommodation, care and support needs. We are an organisation that is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities.
We have a really strong team spirit; we work to support each other and work collaboratively with our heath colleagues. With team mates from diverse cultures, we have a proven track record of supporting colleagues to progress their professional and career development, as well as a passion for supporting students, the Social Workers and Occupational Therapists of the future.
The role:
Southwark Council is recruiting a service manager to lead the Older Persons and people with Physical Disabilities Provider Service which also incorporates supporting our Flexicare offer and community services. This post is responsible to the Assistant Director for Adult Social Care. This is an exciting role that requires a candidate with ambition, creativity and proven experience in leadership in Adult Social Care to help to continue to develop a high quality Older Persons and People with Physical Disability service for Southwark residents.
As a member of the senior management team in Adult Social Care you will be based in Walworth and Peckham. You will work with the assistant director to provide leadership to colleagues as well as strategically manage.
We are highly ambitious to continue to improve our provider services and Flexicare offer and ensure people that use of services have the best possible service to promote their independence, self resilience and well-being. The collaborative nature of the work requires excellent communication, interpersonal and influencing skills. The broad scope of the role requires a results-focused approach, supported by well-developed analytical planning, excellent practice knowledge and strong organisational skills, all of which will be used to best effect in helping to instil a reflective and open culture.
About you:
You will be a registered health and social care professional and ideally have experiencing in managing operational teams within an adult social care (or comparable) context as well as having a genuine commitment to the provision of high quality services for adults. A commitment to strengths based ways of working and being a strategic thinker while keeping the person at the centre of our strategic vision. We are looking for an innovative and experienced leader with the drive, resilience and creativity to help lead a busy, fast paced service within a high performing inner London borough.
Additional details:
Basic salary up to £65,697 per annum, plus JNC financial benefits package of £2,724 per annum, pro-rata (April-March).
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 33 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable:
Closing date: Monday 25th April 2022 at 23:59
Shortlisting date: Thursday 28th April 2022
Interviews and Assessments: 5th and 6th May 2022
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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