Team Manager - Hinckley

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Job Description

Team Manager, Hinckley Learning Disability & Autism Team

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Coalville / Hybrid

Salary: Grade 13

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 13 April 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

The Team

The Learning Disability and Autism team provides support for all adults over the age of 18 who approach the Local Authority for social care support in relation to either Learning Disability or Autism. The Service will work to a social model of Learning Disability and Autism, but the expectation is that people are likely to need specialist support.

You will be responsible for the day to day management of a team mix of Community Reablement Workers, who support people for a time limited period to achieve independence goals, Community Support Workers, who deliver Care Act assessment, support planning, commission eligible services, and case management, and Social Workers who are responsible for more complex work including Care Act Assessment, Safeguarding, VARM, Mental Capacity Assessments/Best Interests decisions, Court work.

Job Purpose

• To ensure that staff can provide good outcomes for people by implementing the department's operating model and ways of working to deliver social care
• To provide technical and professional support to team members
• To improve ways of working for staff by supporting and implementing improved working between teams and partner agencies
• To manage staffing budgets and staff performance using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity, capability and delivery
• To ensure the effective management of team performance and resources
• To provide performance and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and the Head of Service
• To partake in Out of Hours Rota and DOLS sign offs.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have a sound knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and of managing Social Workers holding complex caseloads
• Experience of stakeholder and relationship management
• Experience of business planning
• Proven experience in budget management and in delivering significant efficient savings
• Theoretical, practical, and procedural knowledge of social work and social care legislation, policy and best practice
• An understanding of, and commitment to Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations

We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Anne Goodwin, Strategic Service Manager- anne.goodwin@leics.gov.uk

Claire McWilliams, Head of Service- Claire.McWilliams@leics.gov.uk

We are on a journey to be an inclusive department where a culture to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion is embedded and discrimination challenged at every level together as a department. We warmly welcome those from all cultures, ethnicities, and beliefs - this diversity is vital to our journey and is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer the adults we work with and their families.

You can find out more about the Council's Equality Strategy here

To apply for this job, please click 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

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About Us

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.