The Role

“Delivering the best for residents” is our vision for change in Adult Social Care across Richmond and Wandsworth. Above all, it is about promoting people’s wellbeing and supporting residents to stay active in their communities and retain their independence for as long as possible. We have embarked on an ambitious transformation programme to redesign our services and transform our practice to achieve our vision.

Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity to progress your career? Do you thrive working as part of a fast paced, multi-disciplinary team?

Wandsworth Borough Council are looking for an Assistant Service Manager within the St George’s Hospital Social Work Team. We are looking for someone who will share our values and vision for health and social care across Wandsworth and help ensure that residents receive the care they need, in the right setting.

St Georges Hospital is home to one the busiest A&E Department in Britain, as featured on Channel 4’s, ‘24 Hours in A&E’. Our social work team is at the heart of this demanding and diverse hospital. We have a pivotal role in supporting Wandsworth patients, their families and our health partners.

What we are looking for:

• An innovative and dynamic social work manager
• Strong leadership style and excellent communication skills
• Ability to drive social care performance
• Experience of managing people, allocating work and managing performance
• Ability to build good relationships with our health partners across the acute trust and other organisations
• Has a commitment to ensuring that front line staff deliver a high quality, personalised and strengths-based service, in line with the departments vision for change and statutory duties under The Care Act 2014.

The Assistant Service Manager will take a leading role in maintaining and seeking to improve Wandsworth’s DTOC position for social care delays for which we are currently positioned number 8 across London.

The successful candidate will be a registered social worker with Social Work England.

In return, we can offer you working arrangements that will enhance your work-life balance.  These include Compressed hours, home working (dependent on service need), and a generous holiday allowance of 31 days plus bank holidays. 

In addition, we offer a range of staff benefits such as membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, childcare vouchers, new technology scheme, interest-free loans on annual travel cards, discounts at many leisure activities, restaurants, shops and other establishments. A wide range of developmental opportunities is also offered.

(COVID-19) - information for job applicants

Given the ongoing situation, we have not set a closing date for this job vacancy. We are unable to currently advise when interviews will be arranged. We feel that this is the correct and responsible decision to make in these exceptional circumstances in view of:

· increased demand on the time of the council staff in response to the pandemic

· the need to support more vigilant public health measures.

We appreciate that applicants will want further information. However, as this is an unprecedented situation, arrangements for undertaking these interviews will require careful consideration.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Important Information:

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils