Description
Our client based in Bristol is seeking an experienced and motivated Team Manager to join their North and West Locality Service. This is an exciting opportunity for a strong leader to work alongside another Team Manager in leading a busy Adult Social Care locality service, with a particular focus on performance management, service delivery, KPI achievement, and high-quality social work practice.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management of the service, ensuring safe and effective support is delivered to adults, carers, and families. Working within a fast-paced and challenging environment, you will lead and support a multidisciplinary team undertaking Care Act assessments, reviews, safeguarding interventions, and strengths-based support planning across a diverse adult population.
This role requires a resilient and resourceful manager who can effectively balance operational demands, service improvement, workforce development, and strategic priorities whilst promoting a culture of accountability, innovation, and excellent customer outcomes.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Providing day-to-day operational leadership and management of the North and West Locality Service alongside a fellow Team Manager.
- Leading staff to deliver high-quality, strengths-based Adult Social Care services in accordance with legislation, policy, and best practice.
- Driving service performance through effective implementation and monitoring of KPIs, performance targets, and quality assurance processes.
- Managing, supervising, and supporting Social Workers, Senior Practitioners, and Social Care Practitioners to achieve positive outcomes for citizens and carers.
- Leading on performance management, attendance management, supervision, appraisal processes, and workforce development activities.
- Supporting practitioners with complex casework, safeguarding concerns, risk management, and decision-making.
- Coordinating safeguarding enquiries, providing advice and guidance to practitioners, and chairing safeguarding strategy meetings where required.
- Ensuring statutory responsibilities under the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, and Best Interest processes are met.
- Promoting a strengths-based approach that maximises independence, resilience, and community-based solutions for adults with care and support needs.
- Managing service resources effectively, including oversight of budgets and ensuring value for money across service delivery.
- Working collaboratively with health partners, community organisations, housing providers, and other stakeholders to support integrated service delivery.
- Contributing to service development, transformation initiatives, and continuous improvement across Adult Social Care.
- Monitoring and analysing performance data, ensuring accurate recording and effective use of information systems.
- Supporting hospital discharge pathways, community-based interventions, and mutual aid arrangements across service areas where required.
- Deputising for senior managers as appropriate and contributing to strategic and operational planning.
Qualifications and Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have;
- Professional Qualification: Social Work, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, or another relevant Health and Social Care qualification.
- Registration: Must hold current professional registration with the relevant governing body where applicable.
- Experience: Significant experience within Adult Social Care, including leadership, supervision, and management responsibilities.
- Leadership Experience: Proven ability to lead, motivate, develop, and manage teams within a complex Adult Social Care environment.
- Legislation Knowledge: Strong understanding of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Adult Safeguarding legislation, Best Interest processes, and Health and Social Care eligibility criteria.
- Performance Management: Experience managing KPIs, quality assurance frameworks, audits, and service performance improvement.
- Safeguarding Experience: Extensive experience supporting and overseeing safeguarding enquiries and risk management processes.
- Budget Management: Experience managing or contributing to financial management, resource allocation, and budget oversight.
- Multi-Agency Working: Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with health partners, local services, and external stakeholders.
- Skills: Excellent leadership, communication, organisational, analytical, and decision-making skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
- IT Skills: Strong working knowledge of performance reporting systems and Microsoft Office applications.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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