Job Introduction
Do you have a professional interest in safeguarding adults and professional leadership? We have created an exciting new role within social care for a registered social worker.
You will be supported and reporting to the HCRG Principal Social Worker.
HCRG have delegated Care Act 2014 duties; working with adults and carers with care and support needs. Within this work we also support the Local Authority to undertake their S.42 safeguarding duties.
As the Safeguarding Adults team manager you will act as the Safeguarding Coordinator; providing professional leadership to safeguarding lead workers (social workers).
Main Responsibility
You will be:
- Providing essential leadership and day to day management of the team/ social workers, ensuring that team members carry out their roles efficiently and effectively.
- Providing formal professional supervision to team members.
- Working collaboratively with others, to work to maintain positive morale within the team, ensuring that team members’ workloads are appropriate to their role and level of experience.
- Ensuring that team, service and organisational targets and goals are met within available resources and that any risks / issues are raised with senior managers as appropriate.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see Job Description attached.
The Ideal Candidate
- Registered Social Worker with Social Work England
- Experience in safeguarding adults practice and undertaking S.42 enquires
- Experience of working with adults with care and support needs; adult social care, learning disabilities.
For more information, please contact Jenny.Mcshane-Hicks@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
As a Safeguarding Adults Team Manager, you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset.
You will feel valued as a Safeguarding Adults Team Manager within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £40580 - £44742 with access to NHS pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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