Assistant Team Manager

Portsmouth City Council; East Hampshire; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking an Assistant Team Manager for the Adult Intermediate Care team on a secondment basis. The role involves leading a team of social workers, providing professional supervision, and ensuring high-quality practice in safeguarding and complex care cases.

The post offers autonomy, multi-agency collaboration, and opportunities for professional development within a supportive management team.

Qualifications

• Qualified social worker registered with Social Work England.
• Experience supervising staff and providing professional support.
• Knowledge of adult safeguarding legislation and frameworks (Care Act, MCA).
• Strong report-writing, recording and inter-agency collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a secondment/fixed-term capacity and demonstrate right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Line manage a group of social workers and practitioners.
• Provide professional supervision and supervise complex case work.
• Oversee resources, monitor service delivery and practice development.
• Represent PCC in court when required and support practitioners to apply theory to practice.

Skills

Supervision experience

People management

Court representation

Report writing

Education

Qualified social worker

Registered with Social Work England

Job description

Assistant Team Manager - Adult Intermediate Care - secondment/fixed term opportunity for up to 9 months or until the substantive post holder returns secondment cover.

37 hours per week

Your new role

This is a great opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced and motivated social worker and supervisor to join our Adult Intermediate Care Team on a secondment basis.

As an assistant team manager, you will operate with a high level of autonomy and authority using a wide range of evidence-based intervention and tools. You will provide professional support to staff, leading on practice development to improve performance and quality of service delivery and ensure integrated, multi-agency working is at the heart of improving outcomes for adults with care and support needs. You will demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the full range of social work tasks, particularly in relation to Adult Safeguarding, adults with complex care and support needs, mental capacity assessments, DoLS and partnership working.

Supporting the team manager, you will line manage a group of social workers and other practitioners, equipping them to make effective decisions and be professionally resilient to ensure they make safe and effective outcomes for our residents. You will undertake supervision, prioritising resources, monitoring and evaluating service delivery, disseminating best practice, managing individual performance, report writing and supporting practitioners to represent PCC in court when required

In return we can offer you a supportive management team, learning and development opportunities and an opportunity to shape the way we deliver services.

Who is the person summary:

You will be a passionate, experience and motivated social worker who puts the customer at the heart of what you do. With experience of providing highly skilled supervision and experience of managing staff, you will be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England. You will be responsible for the writing or supervise the writing of complex reports and be able to support, educate and develop practitioners to their full potential but taking necessary steps to address issues when required. You will have a sound knowledge of applicable legislation including the Care Act, the Mental Capacity Act and Adult Safeguarding legislation. You will manage complaint investigations, have robust recording and report writing skills and have excellent interpersonal and reflection skills with the ability to support practitioners to apply theory to practice.

For full details, please review the job role and the 'who is the Person' on the job profile below attached.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

We arecommittedto our values of respect, integrity,collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours .

Additional Information

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.

Our recruitment process

Full information about our recruitment process can be found on our support for applicants' page: Supportfor applicants - Careers portal

You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.

We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard.

More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our career's portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBS privacy notice before submitting any information.

You will need to explain any gaps in your career history within the last 5 years - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.