Job Introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of skilled Social Workers within the Safeguarding Adults Specialist Service across the Safeguarding Adults First Response Hub (SAFeR) and the Adult Safeguarding Hub (ASH)
The role would predominately sit within the Safeguarding Adults First Response Hub and extend support to the Adult Safeguarding Hub. The SAFeR Hub provide a consistent response to Safeguarding Adults concerns raised through the Adult Social Care Contact Centre, keeping the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal central to practice.
The Adult Safeguarding Hub undertake Safeguarding Enquiries under section 42 of the Care Act 2014, promoting positive outcomes for the people of BCP. You may be required to chair professional and formal meetings such as Enquiry Planning Meetings and Multi Agency Risk Management meetings and provide management oversight of Section 42 Enquiries.
The role of the team manager is -
MAIN PURPOSE
- To work in partnership with the Service Manager to ensure effective leadership and management of multi-disciplinary staff. This will entail responsibilities such as recruitment, supervision of staff, allocation of resources and case work.
- To supervise and provide professional advice and guidance to staff.
- Be accountable for statutory assessments and their outcomes.
- Undertake assessments of a complicated nature that require multi-disciplinary working, application of policy, procedure and law.
- To act as a catalyst for ongoing changes in service design and delivery for adults and older people across a health and social care spectrum within the locality.
- To be responsible for specialist budgets, for example, Community Equipment Budget.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
To ensure and contribute to the:
- Promotion of person centred working and active engagement of adults and older people in developing independence, choice and control in the design and delivery of their care.
- Proactive working with the patients/service users, providers, GP’s and health trust staff.
- Application of advanced skills in identifying changes in client’s conditions and take action to prevent deterioration.
- Full awareness and application of Adult Safeguarding and mental health policies and procedures.
- To deputize for the Service Manager as required and to ensure the continuity and efficient delivery of service by the team and to provide cover for the other Team Managers in their absence
- To practice as a BIA as required
- To contribute to the maintenance, development and improvement of services to promote evidence based good practice. To attend meetings, contract meetings and workshops as directed and lead on the development of specific projects
Applicants must hold a professional qualification and be registered with Social Work England, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or the Nursing and Midwifery Council and /or equivalent.
If you wish to know more or have an informal conversation about the role, please contact Service Manager Rebecca Malone 01202 118496 or Stacey Connors, Service Manager on 01202 093501
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
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