Assistant Team Manager, Mental Health Team

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.

Your next role

We are looking for an Assistant Team Manager in the Mental Health Team.

You will have sound strength based skills and be passionate about ensuring people with a mental illness are supported to live their best lives.

This is an assistant leadership role and will see you working closely with your manager, team and key mental health stakeholders to support to the residents of Swindon and their families.

You will manage the Duty team, including referrals and enquiries in to the team, alongside deputising for the Team Manager when required.

The Adult Social Care Teams support adults living in Swindon and you will be responsible for ensuring the teams completion of Care Act Assessments and proportionate support planning, S42 Enquiries and ensuring appropriate protection plans. You will ensure the team follow the care management process of reviews, completing Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest decisions.

You must hold a formal social work degree and be registered with Social Work England to apply for this post.

You 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 Adult Practitioners’ induction

A practitioner-specific, Swindon-specific induction programme, aimed at providing you with the information you need regarding the policies and procedures of Adult Social Care at Swindon Borough Council.

The induction programme incorporates a blend of face-to-face activities and e-learning modules aimed at consolidating and reviewing your knowledge of the key areas.

These key areas include:

• understanding how to use our case management system
• understanding the Safeguarding and Quality Assurance policies and procedures
• understanding and using a strength-based approach

Improvements include:

• Multi-million pound investment in staff and support
• Significant restructure creating smaller social worker teams
• New intuitive IT system to cut down on desk time and make mobile working the norm
• High standards for management practice, support and supervision for staff
• Listening to our social workers by holding regular social work forums
• Implemented Liquid Logic.

Our 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.

Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.

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.

Please see our Vision and Values page for more details.

Please see our new Swindon Plan.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you are a registered practitioner and meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

Your next steps

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.

If you would like to discuss this opportunity further please contact Alison James at  AJames2@swindon.gov.uk who can arrange a call with you.

If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk