About Us

Are you looking for a rewarding and exciting opportunity to progress your career and deliver on health and social care priorities?

Do you thrive working within and leading a fast paced, multi-disciplinary health and social care team?

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

We are seeking to welcome Assistant Service Managers, in our Enablement Hospital Social Work team, who will share our values and vision for integrating health and social care and our discharge to assess services. 

“Delivering the best for residents” is our vision in Adult Social Care across Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. 

Above all, we promote wellbeing and choice, supporting residents to remain active in their communities and to retain their independence for as long as possible. 

About the role 

We are committed to positive outcomes, ensuring that our residents receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. 

The Enablement Team supports Wandsworth residents to regain their independence through a period of Reablement. Working closely with our Reablement providers, hospital social work teams and health colleagues. The Enablement Team has an integral role within the organisation to promote independence and support service users, to live well in their own homes. 

The team is made up on Occupational Therapists and Social Care Assessors who will work alongside Social Workers to deliver a Reablement model of care, utilising adaptive equipment and assistive technology

We are looking for a dynamic and experience manager, who has experience of working as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team and who is committed to achieving positive outcomes. 

The Assistant Service Manager role will appeal to someone seeking to enhance their current skills and experience of leading and inspiring a team, with the potential for career progression into senior management. You will be innovative, inspirational and creative in managing your team, helping us to deliver safe and well-co-ordinated hospital discharges. You will oversee the effective management of hospital discharges from acute and non-acute settings and quickly build positive working relationships with our Health and community partners as a natural communicator.

Our service delivers positive outcomes and requires responding 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. The successful candidates will deliver effective risk management, using their knowledge of legislation and guidance in relation to hospital discharge and continuing health care, to promote well-being.

We are looking for:

• 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

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• A professional qualification in Social Work or Occupational Therapy and registration with SWE/HCPC.
• Demonstrable post qualification experience of working in a statutory Social Care or Health setting with adults.
• Knowledge of current developments in relevant legislation, national guidance and frameworks and how to access more detailed information when necessary.
• Ability to communicate clearly, verbally and in writing, including the ability to present issues so that adults, carers, other professionals and members of the public are able to understand them.

Closing Date:  Sunday 5th January 2025

Shortlisting Date: W/C Monday 6th January 2025

Interview Date: TBC

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.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils 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. 

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