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, adult social care team?

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

We are seeking to welcome Assistant Service Managers, in our Hospital Social Work teams, 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 Better Service Partnership. 

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

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

About the role 

Richmond Response and Rehabilitation Team (RRRT) Social Care

RRRT is a well-established and integrated health and social care team, where we work collaboratively to achieve an excellent service for our residents in Richmond. Working across several NHS acute hospital Trusts and community health services, we deliver high quality, effective outcomes though working and supporting each other, within a committed dedicated team.

The Assistant Service Manager role will appeal to someone seeking to enhance their current skills and experience of leading and inspiring a team. You will be innovative, engaging and creative in managing your team, helping to deliver safe and well-co-ordinated hospital discharges. You will 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. The successful candidate will 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.

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

For any further information please contact: Angela Kelly, Service Manager on  angela.kelly@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:  Sunday 20^th October 2024

Shortlisting Date: W/C Monday 21^st October 2024

Interview Date: TBC

Test/Presentation: None

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