Deputy Team Manager

Are you an experienced Adult Social Worker?

Yes?

Randstad are recruiting for Deputy Team Manager for Social Workers to join the Southwark Council for the Adult services in the Intermediate Care team. This full-time contract role has a fantastic pay rate of £36 per hour and offers flexible working schedules.

Benefits:
- Hybrid and flexible working schedules
- Professional supervision
- Competitive rates of pay
- Weekly pay
- One committed and dedicated point of contact
- An unlimited referrals incentive, giving you a £300 voucher for anyone you refer to us (T&Cs apply)
- A full range of free training of e-learning courses available

The role entails:

- The provision of management, professional expertise, skills and advice to ensure high quality services are delivered.
- Managing staff to ensure that outcomes are both safe and appropriate to the identified need.
- Supporting the Team Manager in service development, safeguarding, professional supervision and other management responsibilities
- To be accountable for the practice of our multi-disciplinary team and provide effective professional leadership, supervision, mentoring and coaching to enhance the quality of practice, undertake performance appraisals and investigate complaints.
- Covering and leading the duty function within both Intermediate Care and Urgent Response.
- Within @Home, triaging incoming referrals to social care urgent response and case allocation.
- To undertake timely allocation of work to the right person and effectively manage waiting lists and risk. To undertake performance monitoring to ensure that our statutory responsibilities are met.
- Authorising assessments and any other relevant work in a timely manner, and ensuring a high standard.
- Building and maintaining positive working relationship with relevant teams and negotiating smooth transfers of case responsibility when appropriate,
- To ensure that safeguarding is a key priority and that effective systems and processes are in place for the investigation of all allegations and incidents of reported abuse.

Requirements:
- Social Work England Registered (SWE)
- Enhanced DBS
- Social Work Degree or equivalent

If you have any further questions or wish to apply for this role, please contact us on 020 4515 3546, otherwise Apply Below and I will be in touch soon.

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Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

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