Job Description
At Swindon Borough Council, we want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that’s who we’re doing it for – the communities and businesses that make our town great. As part of the Council, you’ll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It’s all for better public services. Better processes. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.
We are bold and ambitious in our plans, with a clear vision and direction for the future. Our status as one of the UK’s fastest growing towns is driving transformational change across our organisation, most significantly within our highly valued Adults’ Services teams.
Are you passionate about making a positive and lasting difference for the people of Swindon? Are you able to contribute to achieving our vision of enabling every person to live the life that matters to them, with the people they value and love in the places and communities they call home? Where no one is left behind.
Following the promotion of one of our Team Managers we have a rare opportunity within Swindon Borough Council to seek an experienced Adult Care Team Manager to join our Community Led Support Team.
This post will report into the Head of Adult Service, Community Led Support. You will drive the development of our Adult Care Community Team and ensure that we take a strengths-based approach and assess/review our people within appropriate timescales.
It is an exciting time of change at Swindon Borough Council, as we continue to review, refine and redesign how we can best support our residents within Swindon.
As a Team Manager you will contribute to the strategic development of Adult Social Care development and more widely through taking lead responsibility for specific aspects of work. With other managers and partner agency colleagues, you will develop and deliver high performing and targeted services to improve and achieve best outcomes for adults eligible for Adult Social Care and their carers.
In line with our values, you will be motivated by achieving the best outcomes for residents. You will be proactive in looking for opportunities to improve our residents safeguarding experience of our services and open to supporting communities to embrace change, innovation and opportunities to co-produce services; working with people with lived experience and their carers in the safe delivery and evaluation of services.
You will bring passion and commitment, achieving creative engagement with people with lived experience and their families and promoting effective safeguarding.
To apply for this role, you must hold a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or Social Work England registration.
Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act – for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).
Our new offer to you
We recognise that getting the best outcomes for our Adults means getting the best from you and we have listened to what our Social Workers and our Managers most value.
As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.
Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
For further information about the role please contact Tasha Benger, Head of Service for Community Led Support. Email address: nbenger@swindon.gov.uk
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