Team Leader

Application closing date
- 06/10/2024
- Location
- Halifax
- Salary
- SCP 35 - 38, £43,421 - £46,464 per annum
- Package
- 37 hours per week, permanent Office Base: Gateway to Care
- Job category/type
- Council
- Job description**Post Ref**: CC120

**About Calderdale’s Adult Services and Wellbeing**
Are you passionate about improving the health and wellbeing outcomes for people in Calderdale? Would you be interested in expanding and developing your career in Adult Social Care? If so, you could be the person we are looking for.

This is a terrific opportunity With us you can make a difference - for yourself as well as the people who use our services. We’re always looking for new ways to deliver even better services. Experienced Team Leaders play an integral role in our preventative approach to Social Care. We encourage our multi-disciplinary teams to share their ideas and experiences. We work together to get things done. Bring your positive, proactive outlook and we’ll provide the platform for you to make the most of your experience within Calderdale’s Adult Services and Wellbeing.

You will be working across the various office bases in Calderdale but mainly at The Shay Stadium, in Halifax, for Gateway to Care. In Calderdale’s Adults Services and Wellbeing, we are on a transformational journey, designed to improve the experience of the adults and their carers/families we work with. We are investing in our services and people and putting resources in place to ensure the best possible outcomes for adults to live their gloriously normal lives. And we want you to help us make that happen.

**Your new role**
The focus is early intervention, prevention, community anchors and promoting wellbeing and outcomes. Closer partnerships between the Council, Calderdale Integrated Care Board (ICB), Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Hospital Trust, South-West Yorkshire Foundation Trust (SWYFT), the community and voluntary sector is required to ensure the right outcomes and options are available for the individual we work alongside. We aim to create innovative approaches to drive change and improvements for communities, groups and individuals, which addresses social isolation and loneliness, giving the people of Calderdale new opportunities to engagement and a well lived life.

You will have a joint responsibility with the Team Manager and other Team Leaders for staff within the team ensuring performance management, regulatory compliance, and service delivery, ensuring service priorities are met and take responsibility as required in the absence of Team Manager.

**Your responsibilities will also include**:

- Working collaboratively across the Council, with partners and statutory and voluntary agencies, to ensure a joined-up approach.
- Line management of social workers and other differently qualified staff
- Taking part in a range of case conferences, court attendance, meetings and statutory reviews, pro-actively taking the lead when a social care perspective is required.
- Developing a high level of expertise in particular areas of practice, and leading on those areas

**What you’ll bring**
- Evidence of continuing professional development and capability of practice in accordance with current professional standards
- An in-depth understanding of the financial implications of commissioned care packages
- The ability to make clear decisions, to highlight and limit potential risks associated with intervention.
- Practice Educator, AMHP or BIA qualification or a willingness to achieve these within time specified.
- Evidence of safeguarding within an integrated care system

**About you**
To apply, you need to be a qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration and with significant post-qualification experience and knowledge of the Care Act 2014. You will also hold an additional post qualifying qualification such a Practice Education, Best Interest Assessor and/or Approved Mental Health Professional or be willing to work towards this within a specified time frame.

We require a proactive worker who has a proven record of working under pressure and supporting other staff members. A worker who wants to develop themselves and others.

With experience of chairing meetings involving people who use our services, family members, carers, and other multi-agency professionals, we’re looking for your ability to develop strong relationships with partner agencies and the local community to provide a supportive framework for vulnerable adults.

This role involves travelling around Calderdale and beyond. A driving licence or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means - is essential.

**What we are proud to offer**:

- Committed to providing our workforce with exceptional levels of support, from a comprehensive induction through to continuous personal and professional development. We provide and encourage you to make the most of the high-quality opportunities we offe