Adult’s Social Work Team Manager, Locality Team, Bristol

Adult’s Social Work Team Manager, Locality Team, Bristol 
Pay rate to £40 per hour 
Contract role, Adult Community / Locality team 

Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Adult’s Social Work Team Manager in Bristol. 
This is to work in a Adult Community / Locality team 

• The team provide assessments & reviews under the Care Act for adults with complex or longer-term support needs across a diverse group. In addition, teams would provide mutual aid to other areas of our services. The work is pressured & challenging. A creative approach is necessary, as is the ability to be confident with the 3-tier model, to lead your team to find strength base solutions. 

• You will be responsible for the effective day to day management and leadership of the Service alongside the change management, coordinating available resources, contributing to strategic objectives and outcomes, and ensuring safe and effective delivery of support to citizens, carers, and families with another team manager.  

• You will provide leadership to staff, acting as a positive role model at all times, fostering self-awareness and professional development; whilst ensuring that directorate objectives are understood, and that members of staff work together to achieve these objectives. You will also provide ongoing support, to staff members to enable them to deal effectively with complex customer and stakeholder requirements, finding positive solutions in difficult and changing situations. You will be expected to implement all relevant KPI’s, internal policies, procedures and guidelines alongside the fellow team manager in relation to staff management and service management.   

• You must have an interest in and experience of working in a multi-disciplinary way, be able to work effectively and proportionately and have confidence in respect of decision making and positive risk taking along with another team manager. The role involves leading the management team and supporting the practitioners. You will need to be a good communicator, with excellent time management skills (previous experience of community based social work and budget management would be an advantage). 

• You will be resourceful, resilient, proactive, and prepared for a working day with plenty of challenges and variety. Your role will include leadership, strategic work, supervision of senior practitioners, social care practitioners and social workers. You will work as a member of a team and have support from other team managers, the service manager, and head of service. 

• You must also have a good working knowledge of the Care Act, Safeguarding Adults the Mental Capacity act 2005 and Best Interest and Health and Social Care eligibility criteria. A significant aspect of the role is coordination of safeguarding enquiries providing advice and guidance to practitioners and chairing strategy meetings. 

There is plenty of hybrid working available 
Please get in touch for more information. 

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:- 

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to 

• An easy registration process (all done online) 

• Referral schemes and incentives  

• Ongoing compliance managed for you 

• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more. 

Please contact Graham Leatham on Show phone number or email View email address on pertemps.co.uk for more information.  
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager