The posting
An experienced Assistant Team Manager is required by Liquid Personnel for its client to support the Adult Disabilities Team in Wolverhampton. The role involves providing leadership, supervision, and professional guidance to social care practitioners, overseeing complex cases, ensuring safeguarding and statutory responsibilities are met, and promoting high-quality services for adults with disabilities. Responsibilities include performance management, quality assurance, workflow oversight, service improvement, and deputising for the Team Manager while driving positive outcomes for service users.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Supporting the Team Manager in the day-to-day management and operation of the Adult Disabilities Team
- Providing direct supervision, appraisal, coaching and professional support to Social Workers and other team members
- Managing service demand, risk and workflow in accordance with statutory duties and local policies
- Overseeing complex casework involving adults with disabilities, carers and families
- Ensuring adults with care and support needs are safeguarded through effective risk management and strengths-based practice
- Providing management oversight and quality assurance of assessments, support plans and reviews
- Supporting staff with complex Mental Capacity Assessments, Best Interest decisions and court-related work
- Promoting person-centred approaches that maximise independence, choice and control for adults with disabilities
- Chairing meetings and representing the service at multi-agency panels, forums and professional meetings
- Supporting the development and progression of less experienced practitioners, students and non-qualified staff
- Contributing to service improvement, policy development and practice innovation
- Managing performance, ensuring compliance with statutory responsibilities, targets and service standards
- Supporting safeguarding enquiries and ensuring compliance with local safeguarding procedures
- Working closely with commissioning teams, health professionals and partner organisations to achieve positive outcomes
- Investigating and responding to complaints in line with council procedures
- Ensuring accurate case recording, management oversight and recording of supervision discussions
- Providing reports, analysis and performance information to senior management as required
- Deputising for the Team Manager and providing leadership cover across Adult Social Care services when necessary
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- MA, BA or BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work or CQSW
Registration
- Must be registered with Social Work England
Experience
- Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care
- Experience working with adults with disabilities, their families and carers
- Experience managing complex casework and safeguarding concerns
- Experience supervising, mentoring or managing staff and/or students
- Experience overseeing assessments, reviews and support planning processes
- Experience working effectively in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environments
- Experience of performance management and quality assurance activity
- Experience supporting organisational change and service development initiatives
Legislation Knowledge Strong working knowledge of:
- Care Act 2014
- Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Mental Health Act 1983
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Care and Support Statutory Guidance
- Adult Safeguarding policies and procedures
- Relevant Social Work England standards and guidance
- Strengths-based and person-centred practice frameworks
Skills
- Strong leadership, supervision and performance management skills
- Excellent assessment, analytical and decision-making abilities
- Ability to manage complex social work interventions and competing priorities
- Strong safeguarding and risk management expertise
- Ability to lead and motivate teams within a challenging environment
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Strong partnership-working and multi-agency collaboration skills
- Ability to analyse performance data and use information to improve practice
- Ability to champion strengths-based practice and positive risk-taking
- Excellent report-writing, recording and presentation skills
- Strong organisational, coaching and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to support staff development and create a positive team culture
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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