Practitioner Manager

Lambeth Civic Centre, 6 Brixton Hill, London,SW2 1EG
, United Kingdom and 1 more

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Hybrid Working

PO5 Grade: £56,154 pa rising in annual increments to £59,394 pa inc LW.

2 x Permanent and Full Time

About Us:

It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council, we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeth’s communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan ‘Our Future, Our Lambeth. To deliver on these ambitions, we have embarked our transformational One Lambeth Programme ensuring we are ‘connected by purpose,’ in everything we do to deliver excellence. We are proud to have recently developed a refreshed set of One Lambeth Values and Behaviours that were develop for staff by staff;

Equity, Ambition, Kindness, and Accountability. For more information, please have a look at our dedicated One Lambeth Values and Behaviours page.

About the Borough:

Located in the heart of South London, Lambeth Borough is a vibrant community of over 317,600 residents. Stretching from the dynamic neighbourhood of Streatham in the South to the iconic landmarks of Waterloo in the North, we are proud to be the 9th largest borough in London. Our diversity is our strength, with more than 130 languages spoken, making Lambeth the home of the Windrush generation, London's largest LGBTQ+ community, and a thriving Portuguese-speaking community.

With exceptional schools, lush green spaces including Brockwell Park, cultural gems like the Black Cultural Archives, and world-renowned institutions such as St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth offers an enriching and dynamic environment.

About the Role:

Lambeth is a fantastic place to work. If you’re looking for a challenging but exceptionally rewarding opportunity to move into a social work position within Mental Health Adult Social Care Services, then Lambeth is definitely for YOU!

We currently looking to recruit a Practitioner Manager for our Mental Health of Older Adults Social Work team (MHOA).

The MHOA is a team of 4 experienced social workers. We work in close partnership with the Community Mental Health Team for Older Adults. We specialise in working with people who have complex mental health and dementia, particularly people who struggle to engage. We aim to support individuals and their carers/family to sustain quality of life, independence and wellbeing. Using strengths based and rights based approaches we work closely with health colleagues to support wellbeing in the community and effective hospital discharge work.

The team also support the duty service within the broader Mental Health service and the PM would be on a rota to cover duty days.

The Practitioner Manager is responsible for managing the daytime social care service alongside the team manager, ensuring that a quality, responsive, safe, and person-centred service to support which promotes the well-being of Lambeth residents is delivered. The role also includes leading on specialist areas across the other services and managing some service areas jointly with the other PMs.

The PM will supervise up to 8 social care staff in the team. The PM will ensure that statutory assessments are assigned and completed in a timely manner within expected performance targets and quality standards. This will include supporting social workers through managing their cases, and complex cases, the court of protection, safeguarding procedures, and authorising assessments with a view to supporting them to produce high quality, strength-based work.

With support from the Team Manager, the PM may also be elected to take the lead on service development areas arising from service user requests and member’s enquiries from time to time.

The PM will support social care staff with their professional development through…