Assistant Team Manager - Adult Safeguarding
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
13/02/2025
Advert End Date:
09/04/2025 12:00
Salary:
£42,708.00 - £44,.711.00
Job Category:
Social Work - Adult Service
Employment Location:
Redcar & Cleveland House, Kirkleatham Street, Redcar TS10 1RT
Further Information
Do you want a better work-life balance?
Are you looking for a new challenge, but still feel passionate about the job you are trained to do, and making a difference to the lives of adults and carers?
Interested?....
We are seeking an Assistant Team Manager with strong ethics and values to join our dedicated Adult Safeguarding Team.
We are offering an exciting opportunity to an experienced social worker with a passion for safeguarding adults to join us in promoting the rights and well-being of adults and carers in Redcar and Cleveland.
As an assistant team manager, you will play a key role in providing professional supervision, supporting decision making and the delivery of effective person centred, strengths-based outcomes. Working closely with the Team Manager, you will help drive best practices in line with Care Act 2014 responsibilities, Making Safeguarding Personal principles and other key legislation and safeguarding policies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake safeguarding adults enquiries (s42 Care Act 2014) ensuring timely and effective risk management.
- Work in partnership with adults, carers and multi-agency professionals, including health, police and advocacy services.
- Apply key legislation, including the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Human Rights Act 1998 to safeguarding practice.
- Develop outcome focussed protection plans, promoting person-centred, strengths based, trauma informed practice.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in line with statutory and local policy requirements.
- Participate in team meetings, reflective practice sessions and supervision, contributing to continuous service improvement.
Applicants will need:
- A formal qualification in Social Work registration with Social Work England.
- Substantial post-qualifying experience.
- The ability to produce high-quality risk assessments and written reports.
- A thorough understanding of safeguarding legislation, policies and best practice.
- Familiarity with processes such as MAPPA, MARAC, MATAC and PREVENT.
- Ability to chair multi-agency safeguarding adults meetings.
- Strong assessment, analytical and decision-making skills.
- The ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- A commitment to Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) and promoting independence and dignity.
Benefits:
- We provide regular professional supervision.
- A supportive and collaborative team environment.
- An opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking team, making a meaningful impact on adult safeguarding.
- We have a robust training unit, which includes opportunities for structured career progression.
- Generous annual leave entitlement.
- Pension Scheme.
If you are highly motivated and committed to improving the lives of adults with care and support needs and their carers in Redcar and Cleveland, then we would like to hear from you.
Our hybrid working offer supports our staff to manage the pressures of life alongside a rewarding career. We’ve changed our flexi-time policy too, meaning even greater flexibility in working hours, so that you are supported take time for those important things in life when you need to.
Our Vision
We will help you live safe and well, in the place you call home, with the people and things you love, connected to your community, doing the things that matter to you.
Our commitment to adults and unpaid carers:
• Listen - I am listened to and shape my own support
• Advise - I am given information and advice when I need it
• Enable - I am enabled to regain my wellbeing and independence
• Support - I receive quality care that is value for money
Our ambition is that every adult lives a good quality life, as they would choose to, and as independently as possible. It is our values and passion that motivates us, and if you are a driven professional who shares these values then we want to hear from you!
Our workforce is our greatest asset, and to show we mean this we offer many benefits including, generous holiday entitlement, and flexible hybrid working that meets your needs, as well as those of the people we serve.
In return for what you can offer to the people of Redcar and Cleveland and the Council, we will welcome you with a genuine sense of teamwork, informal support and personal development. You will find that we work hard together to get the job done, investing courageously, and ensuring talented individuals have the ability to progress and make an impact both internally and externally.
Here are just some reasons why you should choose Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council…
Some quotes from our current workforce on why they choose to stay at Redcar & Cleveland:
• Staff value the security of employment with the Council
• ASYEs have had very positive experiences of the programme with good outcomes
• Staff are aware of progression frameworks and other routes to career development; such as social worker apprenticeship programme, which enables you to gain a qualification in social work whilst working within the field.
• A sense of pride to work for the Local Authority and to work with good people across all directorates
• Acknowledgement of the value and benefits of hybrid working
• Staff feel well rewarded for a job well done by their managers
• Staff enjoy the variety of their job roles and love working with people
Why Choose Redcar & Cleveland Adult Social Care?
Here’s how some of our new Social Workers are settling in:
“I was kept really well informed as to each stage of the recruitment process. Since starting 4 weeks ago everyone I have met has been helpful and informative, making me feel very welcome.”
“As a newly qualified social worker fresh out of university, who has with very little experience with working with Locality team, I have found joining the Guisborough and East Cleveland team very easy to process as a new employee, regardless of experience. People within the team have been approachable to offer help and support when I have asked whether support is given face to face or over Microsoft Teams.
I have been offered plenty of shadowing opportunities, to shadow more experienced social workers while they are carrying out assessments, as well as been supported out on visits while I have been given my own cases and carrying out my own assessments.
I have been supported by my Team manager to ease into the role of a locality social worker by being tasked with completing reviews and booking time in to shadow other colleagues as well as book in any Training course that are available”.
To find out more about this exciting, challenging role in a supportive team please contact Alyson James, Team Manager 01642 444472 or Bianca Porter, service manager 01287 612642 or alternatively email alyson.james@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk or bianca.porter2@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk
For detailed information on this role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
New entrants to the council would be required to serve a probationary period of 6 months. The policy applies to all employees new to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council including those joining from other local authorities and public service organisations.
The post is subject to a continuous recruitment process, therefore if the post is filled, the closing date may change.
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council are dedicated to addressing the global climate emergency and have committed to being a net zero carbon borough by 2030.