Location: Buckinghamshire County Wide
Overview
We have a Team Manager (TM) role available in the Transitions Team covering the whole county.
Your role will be to lead a team dedicated to supporting young people and their families through the transition from Children’s and Education services into Adult Social Care services, ensuring that person-centred assessments and plans are undertaken in a timely way and that there is a strong focus on supporting young people to become more independent.
You will work alongside an Assistant Team Manager to provide leadership and motivation ensuring staff are able to provide flexible, efficient and high-quality services within a constantly changing environment.
Contract: Secondment/fixed term contract opportunity for 2 years.
About us
Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.
About the role
Adult Social Care Team Managers are responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the following key areas:
1. Developing a strength-based culture in practice, leadership and coaching of the team
2. Compliance with all statutory social care requirements including the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and Buckinghamshire Multi-agency Safeguarding procedures
3. Contribute to service improvement to deliver outstanding support to Buckinghamshire residents
4. Contributing to budget and financial management
5. Performance against statutory and locally determined indicators
6. Partnership working with internal and external stakeholders, particularly Children’s services and SEND teams.
7. Working with internal and external partners to deliver the Service Plan
Mobile:
A ‘mobile’ role gives you the flexibility to schedule your own diary, so you can meet with colleagues and clients in a variety of locations. You’ll access digital folders and resources on your laptop and be able to use the network wherever you are based. Working from home will be common, as well as meeting your team in the office where necessary.
About you
As a registered Social Worker or Occupational Therapist you will bring you in-depth knowledge of legislation and statutory guidance and be familiar with working to a strength-based approach with particular experience and skills in working with young people.
As a leader you will be able to maintain a proactive culture within a team and work with colleagues and partners to support team development, design and implement new practices, and manage performance requirements.
As a person you will show resilience, persistence and a supportive and adaptable approach in working in an outcome focused way with our partners such as education, health services, community sector, housing, care providers and other stakeholders.
Please refer to the job summary attached for full details about the role.