Social Worker-Deputy Team Manager

Location Southwark
Salary £32.00 - £35.00 per hour
Discipline
Office and Home-based non-client facing Social Worker Deputy Team Manager role within the Adult Social Care Contact Team (Ageing Well Southwark) which sits within Southwark Older Persons and Physical Disabilities Service (OPPD)
This role is within the front door service to accessing the Social Work and Occupational Therapy functions of Adult Social Care.
All referrals are received through this point, a telephone screening is completed and the person is either signposted to community services and agencies or progressed through to an assessment by Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Assistant Practitioner.
The team is currently staffed by 11 Customer Support Officers (CSOs) undertaking the above tasks, 2 Occupational Therapists completing initial phone assessments, 1 Social Work Deputy Team Managers, 1 Occupational Therapist Senior Practitioner and a Team Manager. This recruitment is aimed at adding an additional Social Work Deputy Team Managers to the above team.
The role is is a non-client facing role consisting of a mixture of home based and office based working. The office is at the Southwark Resource Centre (Hitard Court, 10 Bradenham Cl, London SE17 2QB)