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Assistant Team Manager - Adults Intermediate Care Team - Southwark

Please only apply if you have a RECOGNISED SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATION, RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK AND SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND REGISTRATION

Without all of the above essential criteria your application will not be considered

Experienced Assistant Team Manager required to join a statutory Adults Intermediate Care Team
Hybrid working
You must have a social work qualification and full SWE registration as well as relevant experience to be considered
£36ph
If you are interested in discussing this position in more detail, or you would like to register with Caritas for work, please call, text, email or WhatsApp Gemma Bridgman on (phone number removed) or email

We are recruiting to a Deputy Team Manager (DTM) Social Work role within Intermediate Care Southwark (ICS). ICS is an integrated team including physiotherapists, social workers, occupational therapists, nurses, pharmacists and rehabilitation support workers who provide short term, targeted support to avoid hospital admission and support discharges by working together to maximise a person's independence. We work from a strength based position to build on existing skills and resources. The service works alongside specialist care provision. The need for care is regularly reviewed within the period of reablement. Additionally ICS Adult Social Care support the urgent response social work input within the @Home team. The aim of this team is to respond to crisis situations and hospital admission avoidance.

The role provides an exciting opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary setting, with a focus on strengths based practice, promoting independence and recovery. The Deputy Team Manager, with the Team Managers, will be responsible for providing leadership for the whole team by providing supervision and oversight to Social Workers, Occupational Therapists and any other clinical or non-professionally qualified colleagues. The post holder will do this through the provision of management, professional expertise, skills and advice to ensure we deliver high quality services are within adult services (Older people and physical disabilities).

The role entails:

- The provision of management, professional expertise, skills and advice to ensure high quality services are delivered.

- Managing staff to ensure that outcomes are both safe and appropriate to the identified need.

- Supporting the Team Manager in service development, safeguarding, professional supervision and other management responsibilities

- To be accountable for the practice of our multi-disciplinary team and provide effective professional leadership, supervision, mentoring and coaching to enhance the quality of practice, undertake performance appraisals and investigate complaints.

- Covering and leading the duty function within both Intermediate Care and Urgent Response.

- Within @Home, triaging incoming referrals to social care urgent response and case allocation.

- To undertake timely allocation of work to the right person and effectively manage waiting lists and risk. To undertake performance monitoring to ensure that our statutory responsibilities are met.

- Authorising assessments and any other relevant work in a timely manner, and ensuring a high standard.

- Building and maintaining positive working relationship with relevant teams and negotiating smooth transfers of case responsibility when appropriate,

- To ensure that safeguarding is a key priority and that effective systems and processes are in place for the investigation of all allegations and incidents of reported abuse.

To be considered, it is essential that you have a recognised Social Work qualification (Social Work Degree or Diploma in Social Work) and full Social Work England registration as well as recent or significant relevant experience in a similar role.

Reasons to register with Gemma Bridgman at Caritas Recruitment:-

Honest & supportive Managing Consultant - over 10 years experience at Caritas, recruiting Social Workers at all levels across the UK
Bonuses for candidate referrals, job referrals and securing your own placement
Permanent and Locum Social Work opportunities
Information and guidance on working via a Recruitment Agency, including unbiased payroll and umbrella information
Additional Dedicated Payroll Consultant
Access to the broadest range of temporary and permanent vacancies nationwide as well as CAFCASS
CV review service and writing assistance
Copies of all your preferences provided without question
Interview guidance and preparation documents
Access to 'Holistic Support Package' for Mental and Physical Wellbeing
Subsidised training

Caritas Recruitment are a specialist recruitment agency for Qualified Social Workers at all levels. We supply Qualified Social Work staff to over 150 local authorities, UK wide, on a permanent and temporary (locum/contract) basis.If you know of someone who might be interested in this vacancy please ask them to get in touch; we offer a £300 referral bonus scheme for each friend/colleague you refer plus an additional £500 on your fifth referral!

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy