Team Manager - Living in Care Home Review Team

at  Cambridgeshire County Council

ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED TEAM MANAGER, OR INTERESTED IN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROGRESS, WITH A BACKGROUND IN ADULT SOCIAL CARE, AND SOME EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH CARE HOMES?

We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent, full-time Team Manager role in our adult Countywide ‘Living in Care Home Review Team’. We are looking for a manager passionate about enhancing the team from the excellent start by the existing postholder since the team’s inception resulting from an organisation restructure in April 2022. The countywide team consists of 24 practitioners and senior social workers.
Co-production and collaborative work with a wide range of stakeholders is essential in this role to ensure the best outcomes for our citizens. The team work diligently to complete yearly reviews and work alongside care home providers to ensure continuous improvements in practice standards.
Due to the geographical size of Cambridgeshire the team are all mobile workers and can be based in care homes for part of the week. All team members utilize the council building in offices across Cambridgeshire. The successful candidate and will be expected to work in the office for 2 days per week, predominately in Huntingdon and St Ives alongside team practitioners.
The team support adults over the age of 18 who have physical disabilities, and older people, alongside their families and informal carers.
The service welcomes applicants from a varied background as all social work backgrounds and skills are relevant and transferable to the service for those with an interest in developing new skills and knowledge around disability, complex needs and leadership.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, OR AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION, PLEASE CONTACT LAURA GREEN ( SERVICE MANAGER) ON LAURA.GREEN@CAMBRIDGESHIRE.GOV.UK.

The closing date is the 30th of September 2024. Interviews will be held in person on the 8th of October 2024.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
The role is varied on a day-to-day basis and allows for a high level of multi-agency working, creativity and autonomy. The successful candidate will be part of an established group of Team Managers working across our Adult Social Care services and will manage a team of Senior Social Workers, Social workers and Adult Support Coordinators providing robust leadership, guidance and good quality support. The postholder should be able to professionally utilise a Strengths Based Approach, and be able to make evidence-based decisions to promote the safety of others.
The service is busy, lively and interesting and would ideally suit a manager who is proactive and adaptable in leading a team, and who has a passion for ensuring that the adults receiving care and support in our area receive a positive experience when having their needs met.
About you
You will hold a current Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.
You must have experience of managing people and performance, and also leading and managing change. We are looking for someone who is a skilled communicator, with strong organisational skills, and the ability to coordinate and manage the competing demands for services. Knowledge of working with care homes would also be beneficial.
Experience of working with adults with care and support needs and carers is essential along with a good understanding of the underpinning legislative frameworks which guide practice, including; The Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, and Continuing Health Care guidance.
The successful candidate will need to be able to travel independently between locations within Cambridgeshire.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible and creative working arrangements
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like:

• Generous annual leave provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to free support 24 hours a day
• Payment for business mileage expenses (45p per mile)
• Scalable retention payments to loyal social workers in specific teams after the first full year of employment, starting at £900 which increases during the first three years of service

Please read our benefits brochure attached for more information

Please refer the Job description for details