Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex (Hybrid)
Permanent, Full time
Enhanced DBS check required
£59,739 - £63,159 p.a. inc. London weighting - A £5000 ‘golden hello’ for managers new to Brent, upon completion of their probationary period - An annual retention payment of £3000 for eligible frontline workers and managers from Grade PO2 – PO7
36 hours
Across our Adult Social Care Service, we strive to deliver a culture of working together, positive risk taking and accountability. Our Vision in Adult Social Care is “Working with you to live your best life”.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager to join one of our three Assessment & Wellbeing Teams, here in Brent. We are a value-based employer seeking enthusiastic experienced Team Manager.
Our Team Managers here at Brent use a strength-based approach to promote the independence, interest and rights of our residents and their families and Carers.
The Assessment and Wellbeing Teams provide a supportive service applying preventative, enabling, proactive and strength-based approach. The teams support with medium to a longer-term social work support and interventions, along with safeguarding enquiries, reassessments and reviews.
As the Team Manager you will have excellent leadership and management skills, with the ability to lead by example. you will also have excellent social care practice and a commitment to a strength-based approach to service delivery. As a team manager you will be an inclusive leader, with strong legal literacy, with a solution focussed approach, possessing the skills and qualities to motivate and inspire your team.
You will have strong communication skills with your team, senior managers, colleagues and partners across the health and social care sector as well third sector organisations.
You will have substantial post-qualification experience with a Social Work/Occupational Therapist qualification and be registered with Social Work England/HCPC accordingly.
You will have knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, standards and procedures, relevant theoretical frameworks, practice models, reflective supervision that impact on practice within your team and the wider service. In addition, you will also have knowledge of national policy, strategy and developments regarding Adult Social Care.
The London Borough of Brent benefits include:
- Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home (laptop and iPhone provided)
- Monthly CPD sessions
- Regular professional supervision
- Continuing Professional Development
- Genuine opportunities to grow, develop and specialise in your career
- Management development programmes
- Generous Local Government pension scheme
- Access to internal and external learning and development via our Adult Social Care Skills Academy
- Commitment to supporting workforce health and wellbeing with access to a free confidential employee counselling service.
- Access to privilege card for local retailers the London Designer Outlet
- Access to our Zipcar scheme
If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the "Apply Now" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.
Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.