Job Ref: 213678193

Date: 2021-05-05 11:03:29

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Seven Social Care is looking for a qualified Deputy Manager to fill an exclusive opportunity specialising in the wellbeing of Adults within Milton Keynes.

The role:

To risk assess and manage all safeguarding adult alerts, with the intention of them being dealt with in the most productive, appropriate manner.

To advise and be supportive of social workers/health colleagues practice in safeguarding adults; ensuring policies and procedures are followed.

To support social workers/health colleagues in the assessment and risk management of cases.

Report change and development issues in adult social care and safeguarding adults to senior managers.

To support the team manager in promoting and responding positively to change, seeking continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

To monitor referrals received by the team ensuring they are responded to within agreed timescales.
Monitoring and reporting of the activities of the team, agreeing and authorising outcomes regarding social work assessments and care plans, to ensure service users and carers needs are met in accordance with assessed need.
Professional and personal development of the team, in order that staff develop professionally and in accordance with Social Work England (SWE) registration requirements and the performance management policies of the local authority.
Co-ordinating work, providing professional support, allocation of work and the monitoring of caseloads and support to social workers and health colleagues.
To conduct assessment, manage and hold those cases with more complex, specialist needs i.e. transforming care patients, CHC funded service users.
Develop positive relationships with the CCG & Community Health Teams. To represent the local authority at meetings across social care and health, third sector and the wider community in agreement with the team manager. This is to represent the council, ensuring decisions made are in accordance with local authority policies and procedures, national legislation and/or local guidance. This will have the effect of more efficient use of resources, leading to improved outcomes for service users, patients and their families.
To be supportive of multi-disciplinary work, encouraging effective team working, which leads to improved service user, patient and carer outcomes.
To undertake regular staff supervisions and to carry out appraisals with staff to assess their performance in line with MKC policies and procedures.
The management of complaints allocated to them by the Team Manager.
To organise care within available resources and policies and procedures of the council and adult social care.
Applicant Requirements:

Qualifications: Social Work Degree approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Experience: Experience working as an Adults Deputy Manager in the UK.
Compliance: Up to date HCPC registration and DBS.
Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently.
Hours: 37.5 hours p/w.
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