Assistant Team Manager

The starting salary for this full-time, permanent position is £56,439 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.

Maybe you are already an Assistant Team Manager who wants to develop new skills to broaden your knowledge and experience. Or perhaps you feel ready to take a step up into a management role?

We are excited to be hiring a new Assistant Team Manager (Social Work qualified) to join our amazing, supportive, and award-winning team based at Epsom General Hospital.

The role offers hybrid working with the expectation to be in the office for a minimum of 3 days per week to support the team with hospital discharges. Our team covers the hours of 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday. Typically, our Assistant Team Managers work from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Our Offer to You

26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays
Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
A generous local government salary related pension
Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents

About the Role

Are you organised and ready to make a difference in people's lives?
Are you passionate about social care and supporting staff to achieve high standards?
Do you thrive on challenge?

If the answer is yes, then we would love to hear from you!

We are a busy and diverse team managing hospital discharges across two acute hospital sites, Epsom General and St Helier. We undertake Care Act assessments and support planning, which can include Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decisions, often following the Discharge to Assess (D2A) pathway. The complexity of our work varies greatly, supporting all adults of the hospital who are Surrey residents with a need for care and support.

We always strive to get people back home through a strengths-based and person-centred approach, and support them to live their best lives.

We are a hard-working team based in a fast-paced environment, regularly going up to the wards to meet our clients or visiting them at home after they've been discharged. We work closely with our health colleagues, ensuring a multi-disciplinary approach to discharge planning. There is a supportive culture embedded within the team, and staff step in to assist their colleagues to ensure discharges from hospital are timely.

As a team, we are committed to making a difference to our residents lives, ensuring no one is left behind, and working in a positive and inclusive manner.

As one of two Assistant Team Managers, you will support the day-to-day running of a busy, dynamic team, effectively prioritising daily challenges and expectations. You will support the Team Manager to deliver high quality, personalised adult social care. Additionally, a key accountability of the role is developing staff practice ensuring the team you work within is the best it can be.

Supporting You

When joining us, you will receive regular supervision, management support, training opportunities, and peer-to-peer learning, all of which will promote your own professional growth and development. You will become part of a fantastic team that supports each other and works closely with our acute hospital health colleagues, enabling a positive and collaborative approach to our work.

We understand the challenges of day-to-day frontline social work and have put tools in place to improve your work/life balance and make day-to-day tasks more manageable. We have created an environment to put you in the best place to do your work in a more agile way; working from home, office, or other locations as appropriate however, there is an expectation you will be in the office for a minimum of 3 days a week, in line with our Team Charter.

Your Application

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:

Professional social work qualification and completion of any post qualification practice or training requirements and Social Work England registration
Significant post-qualification experience, including experience in a social care setting, and excellent understanding of the social care and health agendas
Applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation, including the Mental Capacity Act and the NHS Continuing Healthcare National Framework
Effective knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults' procedures
Excellent communication skills that enable you to successfully manage a team and develop effective relationships with examples of when you have provided effective professional supervision to less experienced colleagues
A track record in inter-agency partnership working
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