About the role
Are you looking for an opportunity to expand upon your experience in a care home setting? If yes, then we have the perfect role for you.
We are looking for a Team Manager to join our Care Home Support Team on a 12 month fixed term contract/ secondment.
The Care Home Support Team offers a fresh approach to supporting care homes in Cambridgeshire. Cambridgeshire County Council and the ICB already have processes in place for working with the CQC to monitor Care Home performance and to ensure that any concerns are investigated and solutions are taken forward. The Care Home Support Team is an enhancement to the support we offer and provides a flexible and intensive model of support to aid in developing practice standards.
Although New Shire Hall, Alconbury is listed as the working base, there is flexibility to work at locations across the county.
For an informal chat about the role contact Donna Glover at Donna.Glover@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Interviews will take place in person, w/c 17th July
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
By sharing information and intelligence gathered from a variety of sources, and in collaboration with the contracts team and ICB team, the team identify and prioritise those Care Homes and some domiciliary care provider where additional support is most required.
The team take a lead in working alongside Care Home Managers and empower them to find solutions to complex practice issues. They provide support to upskill care home managers and their teams on vital areas of practice such as application of the Mental Capacity Act, care planning, risk assessments, safeguarding, use of least restrictive interventions, consideration of more creative ways to support individuals, ensuring a preventative approach rather than reactive, ensuring wellbeing of individuals in the home through meaningful activity and connections to the local community This helps home managers to understand the actions that are required, support with implementation and help to embed a positive culture amongst staff and within the home.
The Care Home Support Team work in partnership with the provider, contracts and other agencies to ensure effective and sustained change and high quality care is delivered to the adults living there.
About you
As a qualified Social Worker yourself, you will be managing a small team of social workers and alternatively qualified workers. You will work closely with health and local authority colleagues to ensure alignment with their services.
You will need to demonstrate sound leadership and management skills to work with your team and successfully deliver the support needed, utilising a strong coaching style and supporting the team with understanding systems theory, strengths based practice and true partnership working.
You must understand the importance of data analysis and evidence based practice.
You will be part of a team dedicated to supporting Care Homes and it will be important that you work closely and share knowledge with colleagues in Contracts, Operational Teams and the ICB, so a track record of positive partnership working will be beneficial as well as excellent communication skills.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
For our Social Workers, we offer more specific benefits like:
- Generous annual leave provision (28 days, plus bank holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to free support 24 hours a day
- Payment for business mileage expenses (45p per mile, and for the 2022/2023 financial year an additional fuel allowance for those driving over 300 business miles each month)
- Plus, 6 days of protected time each year to enable our Social Workers to maintain their Continuous Professional Development.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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