Assistant Team Manager; Mental Health; Temporary

Position: Assistant Team Manager (Mental Health) (Temporary)
Tempting Recruitment are working alongside our client, a Local Authority, who are looking to recruit an experienced Assistant Team Manager to join their team based in London.

JOB DETAILS
PAY RATE: £36 - £38 per hour
WORK TYPE:
Temporary
WORK PATTERN:
Full Time

LOCATION:

London

JOB SUMMARY
The Assistant Team Manager (Mental Health) supports the Team Manager in managing and leading the team, ensuring the delivery of a high quality, effective and efficient, person-centred service for adults with mental health social care needs and their carers. This includes the supervision of social workers and community support workers within the service and acting a Safeguarding Adult Manager (SAM).
The role provides leadership professional supervision to practitioners in the team to provide direction, maintain practice standards and promote continuous professional development.

JOB DESCRIPTION
The duties and responsibilities of the role will include:

To manage the Mental Health Social Care Duty Team
To supervise and support social workers and social care assistant on duty
To manage the duty email and give directions to staff
To give staff directions on screening the cases on Mosaic
To give SAM (safeguarding adult manager) directions and record them on the client's file on case note
To provide supervision to duty staff when required
To give update and duty progression to the team manager and senior managers
To attend team meetings in the office face to face twice a month.
Attending SAM meeting once a month
Attending ATM and Seniors duty meeting once a month
Attending panel when duty takes any case to panel
Attending managers meeting
Liaising with other teams and professionals and hospitals staff.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE
The successful candidate will have the following skills and competencies:

Demonstrable post qualification experience of working in a statutory Social Care or Health setting with adults

Experience of managing and motivating staff including providing professional supervision and day to day management of a team

Experience of working in partnership with Health, voluntary agencies and private providers and to contribute to the development of joint initiatives
Please be advised that only candidates that have the specific skills and experiences required for this role will be shortlisted and submitted to our client for review.

HOW TO APPLY

Hit the APPLY button or contact Ellie Hibbard at Tempting Recruitment NOW on (phone number removed)