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Assistant Service Manager Hospital Social Work Team

Salary Range £47,354 - £57,381 (P05)

Maternity Cover, 7-month secondment opportunity

Full Time

Location Wandsworth Town Hall and St Georges Hospital

Are you an inspiring social care professional looking for a rewarding and exciting opportunity to progress in your career and deliver health and social care priorities?

Are you interested in delivering a high-quality service that makes a difference to our residents and the community?

We are recruiting an Assistant Service Manager to cover maternity leave for 7 months. This is an excellent opportunity for someone internally looking to progress in their social care career.

You will share our values and vision for integrating health and social care and our Discharge to Assess Services. We promote wellbeing and choice, supporting people to remain active in their communities and to retain their independence for as long as possible. We would like the post holder to start end of May beginning of June.

About the role 

St Georges Social Work Team

SGH is a well-established health and social care team, where we work collaboratively to achieve an excellent service for our residents in Wandsworth.

As the host borough for St Georges Hospital and Queen Marys, we must deliver high quality, effective outcomes though working and supporting each other, within a committed dedicated team. We work closely with our Enablement Occupational Therapists, to ensure that we promote independence at the point of discharge.

You will:

Be Innovative, engaging and creative in managing your team, helping to deliver safe and well-co-ordinated hospital discharges. 

Oversee the effective management of hospital discharges from acute and non-acute hospitals and quickly build positive working relationships with our Health and community partners as a natural communicator.

Our service requires managers to be able to respond to a change in circumstances, due to a hospital admission. Therefore, the ability to think quickly, act calmly and to be decisive is necessary for this role. 

Deliver effective risk management, with a clear knowledge of legislation and guidance in relation to hospital discharge and Continuing Health Care, to promote well-being and positive outcomes.

This is a hybrid role with a mix of working from the Council office, St Georges Hospital & from home.

Essential Skills Experience and Qualification:

An innovative and dynamic social care manager with experience of managing people

Strong supportive leadership with excellent communication and IT skills

The ability to embrace change, whilst maintaining high quality practice and performance

The ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with Health partners and external organisations

A commitment to equality diversity and inclusion

An ability to embed statutory functions under the Care Act 2014 and work in accordance with the Inter-Agency Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults

We can offer you:

An open and supportive management structure

Training opportunities to develop your career

Supportive regular supervision

Flexible working arrangements

For further information please contact Charlotte Appleton, Service Manager, on charlotte.appleton@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk 

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

A professional qualification in Social Work or Occupational Therapy and registration with SWE/HCPC.

Experience and skills in managing people

Leadership and Management training/qualification (or willing to undertake)

Closing Date:  11th May

Shortlisting Date: TBC

Interview Date: TBC

For an informal conversation please contact Charlotte Appleton Service Manager Hospitals via charlotte.appleton@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Should we not receive sufficient applications we will advertise the role externally. 

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Find out more about our service via Find your social care career | Richmond Adult Social Care

All internal applicants for this secondment must seek permission from their current line manager before applying. Failure to do so may result in the secondment not being authorised. 

Richmond and Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. This campaign is anonymised.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. 

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.  

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils