Team Manager -disability-Adults

Location Southwark
Salary £31.96 - £34.20 per hour
Discipline
Intake and Assessment experience essential, experience of disability service an advantage. 

The All Age Disability Service (0-25) / Learning Disability (25+) service provides a comprehensive and integrated social care pathway for children and young people with Learning Disabilities and other disabilities from childhood into adolescence and on into adulthood through a seamless care pathway.
The Team Manager will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive and effective social work team in accordance with current legislation, council policy and best practice.
Provide oversight for the most complex cases and authorise appropriate packages of care to meet the needs of children and young people with disabilities, and ensure all cases are subject to regular monitoring and review. Provide professional guidance and support to the team on complex assessments and case management functions, and will ensure regular monitoring and reviewing of cases to ensure a high quality customer-focused service is delivered.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Responsibilities
1. To provide exemplary leadership, management and professional guidance to a team of social workers, and where required other practitioners. This will include setting objectives, performance management and appraisals.
2. To ensure the delivery of a high quality, comprehensive, integrated, systemically-informed social work service within Southwark’s practice Framework.
3. To promote and govern excellent social work practice, including strength based assessment of need, outcome focussed planning and working purposefully with children and young people with disabilities, their families and carers, support networks and other professionals to safeguard service users and ensure the provision of the highest quality of care.
4. To ensure the delivery of a social work service which is both relationship-based and responsive to the needs of children and young people with disabilities and their families / carers in a timely manner and within statutory guidelines.
5. To have a good oversight of the most complex cases and authorise appropriate packages of care to meet the needs of children and young people with disabilities, and ensure all cases are subject to regular monitoring and reviews.
6. Through leadership and management, promote and govern excellent practice to deliver high quality outcomes for children and young people with disabilities and their families / carers; ensuring accountability for high professional standards; which comply with procedures, agreed timescales and targets. Ensuring the safety of service users remains the highest priority.
7. Responsible for management of the team, overseeing workload and performance management in accordance with Council policy and national standards.
8. To promote purposeful and systemically-informed social work practice within Southwark’s practice framework, this empowers families and young people to make positive changes in order to live an ordinary life, in proportion to each child’s identified risk and need.
9. Provide high quality support and challenge to motivate staff to carry out their roles to the best of their abilities and to the standards required of them.
10. Maintain own continuous professional development and that of the team through ensuring all staff have training and development plans which are regularly monitored and reviewed.
11. Support and assess Newly Qualified Social Workers through their Assessed & Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), others participating on work based routes into social worker, and Social Workers preparing for the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS), taking the role of practice educator.
12. Undertake day to day management functions, assign tasks to members of the team, oversee caseloads and manage capacity to ensure throughput of work and that workload is manageable.
13. To lead service development by sharing knowledge and expertise, data and research findings, and by monitoring key performance areas for the team, and brief colleagues in new procedures and different methods / approaches.
14. Build effective partnerships with key stakeholders in order to promote effective pathways, good working relationships and continuity of quality care.
15. Represent the council at multi-agency meetings when required.
16. On the basis of assessed needs and risks, devise, implement and review care plans, including the development and management of protection plans within a child protection framework, applying proportionate and ethical approach to the exercise of authority.
17. To promote and govern excellent social work practice, including purposefully with children and adults with disabilities and carers, support networks and other professionals to safeguard service users and ensure the provision of the highest quality of care inline with existing children’s and adults safeguarding policies and protocols.
18. Work purposefully with other agencies to promote positive outcomes and ensure an integrated approach, which takes account of the views of the service user, family and carers as well as other professionals. That this recognises where patterns of relationships between professionals may compromise the welfare of safety of children and young people with disabilities and their families / carers.
19. Ensure all assessments, support plans, and reviews are carried out in conjunction with service users, their families and with relevant 3rd sector stakeholders, and that they fully consider the long term consequences of decisions and preparing for adulthood and the getting an ordinary life principles.
20. Ensure decision making is based on observation and analysis, exploring a wide range of family and professional contexts. Ensure practitioners build relevant relationships and work directly with service users; providing clear and accurate assessments of their and their family’s needs in line with statutory guidelines, and effective risk assessments are completed to safeguard services users.
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