Barnet are looking for an experienced Team Manager to provide operational oversight to the Mental Health Social Work Team.
The successful candidate will provide professional management and case supervision for a multidisciplinary team delivering specialist social care and enablement services for adults with mental health and carers with a focus on enablement, recovery, meeting the social care outcomes across the Borough.
They will ensure compliance with the service's standards and processes and operate within the context of the service priorities and principles of increasing user choice and control over the services they receive. These priorities focus on meeting the four social care outcomes:
You will also be enhancing the quality of life for people with care and support needs, in line with the principles of mental health enablement model.
* Delaying and reducing the need for care and support
* Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care and support
* Safeguarding adults whose circumstances make them vulnerable and protecting them from avoidable harm
Provide excellent leadership, direction and effective management of the team's resources, ensuring professional standards and Best Practice Act as key drivers within a culture of continuous service improvement, value for money and safer practice.
Provide day to day professional support and case supervision to a social care team within the Mental Health locality. Deliver individualised and needs-led enablement and long term support plans for adults who require support, through the use of timely and focused interventions, support and advice that supports long-term independence and choice.
Deliver a high performing, productive, quality service that is cost effective and work closely with key partners with an increased focus on personalisation and self-directed support.
Build effective working relationships with partners who operate both within and outside of the council, such as the Customer Support Group (CSG), Health, other care providers and colleagues to achieve an integrated approach to assessment, planning and review.
Ensure that the responsibility of safeguarding adults at risk is a fundamental element of this job and that the principles are embedded in all procedures, practices, professional advice, decisions and support. Ensure that the service promotes safety and managed risk in the context of maintaining choice.
Take responsibility for promoting, monitoring and safeguarding the welfare of people who come into contact with the service. Ensure full compliance with the Pan-London protocols and Barnet safeguarding standards in relation to timescales, alerts, investigations, protection planning, recording and audits.
Ensure relevant risks are appropriately identified, recorded and managed in a consistent and planned fashion in accordance with service practice and standards.
Support, promote and apply self-directed support, direct payments, Telecare equipment and rehabilitation to support the principle of service users and carers having choice. Agree self-directed support in accordance with the scheme of delegation and in compliance with financial regulations.
If you have the relevant experience at management level in a similar team & are registered on SWE wed love to hear from you.
Please apply today for more information.
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