Job Description

Team Manager ( Temp Fixed Term 12 months Maternity Cover - commencing Nov 2023 - Community Assessment Team South

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Sefton Adult Social Care to become a temporary team manager in the assessment team based in Magdalen House Bootle . As a Team Manager you will have management responsibility for a busy team of both qualified Social Workers and Community Assessors, whose role is to complete assessments for adults (over the age of 18 years) completing the statutory duties of the Local Authority under the Care Act 2014. You will be expected to provide robust supervision in line with Sefton\'s supervision policy. Applicants should have proven management experience or be ready to demonstrate their readiness for the step up to a management position.

This role will provide an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of integration with our health colleagues. The Community Team South has already commenced the \'integrated journey\' envisaged by the Health and Care Act 2022 by establishing effective Integrated Multi- Disciplinary Teams and developing excellent links with health colleagues as a result. This has worked well to develop robust and safe pathways for our service users and carer, but there is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to build on these excellent foundations and develop a truly integrated placed based model. Additionally, the role will entail working with the team and senior managers to effect change in respect of the Health and Care Act 2022.

Please note that in order to apply for this post you must be qualified and registered as a Social Worker with Social Work England and have post qualifying experience preferably in Adult Social Care.

Introducing Sefton

Sefton is a vibrant local authority that is already on a journey of aspiration and ambition as it works towards delivering its exciting Vision 2030. This journey is shared with our partners and communities as we strive to ensure Sefton is a confident and connected Borough.

Sefton has a strong track record of partnership working and place leadership, and for having a motivated and dedicated workforce that is resilient and adaptable, it puts the Council in the best possible place to meet the challenges and opportunities ahead.

If you would like to be part of our team and contribute to our ongoing success and have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate and make a difference to outcomes for adults and carers, then we would like to hear from you. As a passionate, service focused and resilient Social Worker with a \'can do\' attitude, Sefton Council wants you to help achieve its vision for all vulnerable adults and their careers. With our partners, we are working hard to help all adults to keep them safe; and independent and an active part of the community in which they abide. As an Authority, our current focus is caseload and good quality supervision, with our excellent in-house training offer you can expect many development opportunities and training tools available for all staff, you can become part of our vision and management team.

A confident and connected borough

Sefton is the northern borough of Liverpool City Region with more than 273,000 residents.

Boasting 22 miles of stunning coastline, Sefton is a leading coastal tourist destination with a flourishing visitor economy. Spanning the busy Port of Liverpool, the famous Antony Gormley\'s \'Another Place\' installation, attractive beaches, and dunes, to the resort town of Southport, the diversity of the borough provides a unique mix of urban and natural setting.

You will be working in a diverse and exciting borough with a world renown racecourse and famous golf courses alongside National Trust nature reserves where people can enjoy a great work-life balance. With excellent transport links Sefton is well placed for accessing cities across the Northwest, including Liverpool and Manchester. With vibrant town centres, intimate commuter towns, beautiful villages and stunning coastal and rural locations, everyone can find their perfect home.

This is an organisation where excellent links with our partners, businesses and communities are integral to the delivery of our products and services.

What we require from you:

• Social Work Degree or equivalent Social Work Qualification
• Management experience, is essential.
• Current registration with Social Work England.
• The motivation and desire to impart your extensive social work knowledge, experience, skills and practice standards to Social Workers.
• Good knowledge of the Care Act.
• Ability to undertake one-one and group reflective supervision.
• Proven record of chairing complex meetings.
• Ability to understand and demonstrate a commitment to equality and diversity.
• Ability to effectively undertake partnership working with all our stakeholders and further develop these relationships.
• Commitment to your own personal development and professional growth.

Our offer to you

• To be part of an established, caring, and welcoming team.
• Access to good quality, monthly, reflective supervision.
• A comprehensive induction programme.
• A wide variety of career progression routes bespoke to individual training and development needs as identified in annual PDRs (Personal Development Reviews)
• Excellent training and career development opportunities.
• Partnership with Research in Practice, providing access to online webinars, podcasts and materials linked to the latest research and policy updates to support your CPD (Continuing Professional Development) and inform evidence-based reports
• 28 days annual leave rising to 33 days after 5 years continual service plus 8 bank holidays
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity/adoption leave pay and maternity support leave schemes.
• Excellent pension scheme.
• Opportunities for agile/flexible working
• Access to free eye tests and where appropriate, contribution towards glasses.
• Discounted gym membership with all Active Sefton gyms
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to local benefits and discounts on products and services
• Hybrid working e.g., the ability to work from home or office for some part of the working week.
• Occupational Health Service available to advise on work related health issues.
• Commitment to supporting your emotional and mental health with access to a free and confidential employee counselling service.
• Assistance with relocation if eligible.
• Access to our Practice Forum.

If you wish to discuss any aspects of this role, please contact Nick Roberts on 07976876745.

Any internal candidates may wish to consider this as a secondment opportunity. Please ensure you have obtained prior permission from your line manage before applying.

Please do not make contact if you are from a recruitment or advertising agency.

If successful, you will also be required to apply for an Enhanced Criminal Record Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. YOU MUST THEREFORE, DISCLOSE WHETHER YOU HAVE ANY PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS IN THE APPLICATION FORM.

Please note interviews are scheduled for 12 October 2023

Equal Opportunities

Please note that all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for these jobs (as given in the Person Specification) and who want to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme will be invited to interview.

How to apply

Please apply online via the link provided.

Please note, we do not accept CV\'s (unless specified on the advert).

Please fully complete the online application form.

Further information on this vacancy

Sefton Council