Assistant Service Manager

Title:Assistant Service Manager - Enablement

Salary - £46,014 to £55.758

Location - St Georges Hospital

Contract term, hours - Perm, 36 hours per week

Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity to progress your career and deliver on health and social care priorities?

Do you thrive working within and leading a fast paced, multi-disciplinary health and social care setting?

If the answer is yes, we have perfect the role for you.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are seeking to recruit an outstanding Assistant Service Manager, to lead our Enablement Team.

"Delivering the best for residents" is our vision in Adult Social Care. For us this is measured by the services we provide, outcomes we achieve for people and the user experience.As a service we endeavor to promote wellbeing and choice, supporting residents to remain active in their communities and to retain their independence for as long as possible.

About the service

We are committed to positive, ambitious and person centred outcomes for people, ensuring that our residents receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

The Enablement Team supports Wandsworth residents to regain their independence through a period of Reablement.Working closely with our Reablement home care providers, hospital social work teams and health colleagues, the Enablement Team has an integral role within the organisation to promote independence and support service users, to live well in their own homes.Reablement can mean regaining the ability to move around the home safely and access the community with confidence as well as support with regaining skills in daily living, so as not to be over dependent on care.

The team is made up of Occupational Therapists and Social Care Assessors who work alongside Social Workers and health partners to deliver a Reablement model of care, utilising adaptive equipment and assistive technology, with smart goal setting

About The Role:

Leadership and Management:You will be innovative, inspirational and creative in managing your team, helping us to deliver safe and well-coordinated hospital discharges.You will lead the team and have oversight of referrals from acute and non-acute hospitals settings and the community, tracking the progress of rebablement plans and flow.

Experience: you will be a dynamic, ambitious and committed leader, with experience of working as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team and committed to achieving positive outcomes for residents.

Knowledge: Our service is required to work swiftly in response to hospital discharge and community demand so you will have the ability to think quickly and act calmly whilst making smart decisions.You will have skills in risk management when leading a team, using good knowledge of relevant health and social care legislation and guidance to ensure best practice and user well being.

Professional Development:Embracing opportunities for personal and professional growth to enhance your current skills and experience of leading and inspiring a team, this role will give you the potential for career progression into senior management

Qualifications and Skills:

You will:

• hold a qualification in Occupational Therapy or Social Work and registration with SWE/HCPC
• have a good understanding of how occupational therapy can support independence
• be an innovative, energetic and dynamic manager, or aspiring manager, with experience of leading in a health and social care setting
• have excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• be able to embrace change, whilst maintaining high quality practice and performance
• he strong skills in partnership work with Health partners and external organisations
• be committed to equality diversity and inclusion, for our staff and in our service delivery to residents

To be successful in this role, you will share our values and ambition for integrating health and social care in our discharge to assess service and our community offer.

Recruitment Timeline

Closing Date: Sunday 1st December 2024.

Shortlisting Date: W/C 2nd December 2024.

Interview Date: TBC

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone.We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.