Deputy Social Care Manager

Adult Social Care has an exciting opportunity for a full time (37 hours) Deputy Social Care Manager position within our Tewkesbury Locality Team. This role is a combination of frontline and strategic level management., Under the direction of the Integrated Social Care Manager, the Deputy Social Care Manager (DSCM) is responsible for ensuring the team's social work practice and values, to deliver positive outcomes. The DSCM will achieve this through ensuring team arrangements are in place for supervision, workload management, quality assurance and the effective deployment of the budget, staff and additional resources. This is an interesting and varied role within an established and supportive team that are motivated, passionate and engaged. There is a full complement of management in the team which consists of an Integrated Social Care Manager, Social Work Leads and a Social Care Lead. Other team members include qualified Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, Adult Social Care Practitioners and an administration team., It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received and / or due to the needs of the service. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability

• as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to recruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
• a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

We are looking for an individual who has experience in line management within a multi-disciplinary environment. The ideal candidate will have:
• Substantial experience of working with vulnerable adults or evidence of transferable experience in a statutory health or adult social care setting
• Effective leadership, providing support and modelling engagement in the most challenging of circumstances, including with partner agencies, stakeholders and other professionals
• Experience in undertaking line management duties, including appraisal and formal performance management of staff
• Experience of financial decision making in the context of managing allocated team budgets
• Significant up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and procedures
Providing inspirational and credible leadership, building and owning strong relationships politically, externally and internally, are all important qualities for this role. Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website. If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.

Being part of this service means that you have a supportive established network of peers that encourages regular communication and a platform for collaborative solutions, with opportunities to develop further excellent working relationships with professionals from across the council and other agencies. See how Gloucestershire Adult Social Care's #Makethedifference approach is transforming lives and reinvigorating social work in the county by reading our Community Care Editorial. The position is based in Tewkesbury Borough Council Offices, Tewkesbury. We offer flexible working with a mix of office and home working. To find out more about working in Tewkesbury Locality team, visit our "Meet the Teams" webpage.

Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that's exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Free parking at our office in Tewkesbury
• Agile working with a mix of office and home working
• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment
• Robust supervision and training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills. Including personal licences to Adults CCINFORM, access to mandatory training and additional topical bi-annual workshops
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network