Team Leader - Learning Disabilities

Liquid PersonnelCoventry, England, United Kingdom · Posted 1 month ago

Full-timeEst. 55,000 GBP

Description

Liquid Personnel is recruiting experienced Team Leader to join its client's Learning Disabilities Adult Social Care Service Team at Coventry. This is a key leadership role responsible for supporting the operational management of a busy Adult Social Care team, ensuring high-quality services are delivered to adults with learning disabilities. Working alongside three other Team Leaders, you will share responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service, providing professional leadership, oversight and guidance to social care practitioners while maintaining a strong focus on safeguarding, practice quality and positive outcomes for service users.

The successful candidate will oversee case allocation, workload management, duty arrangements, supervision and quality assurance activity, ensuring statutory responsibilities are met and practice standards remain consistently high. You will play a vital role in supporting staff development, monitoring performance, conducting audits and responding to complaints, while working collaboratively with internal teams and partner agencies across health and social care. pact within a supportive and collaborative Adult Social Care environment.

What will your responsibilities be?

Providing day-to-day operational leadership within the Learning Disabilities Adult Social Care Team
Managing and delivering regular supervision to social workers and adult social care practitioners
Supporting staff performance, professional development and reflective practice
Overseeing duty functions and ensuring timely responses to referrals and service demands
Allocating work appropriately across the team and monitoring caseload distribution
Providing management oversight and guidance on complex cases and safeguarding concerns
Undertaking quality assurance activity to ensure compliance with statutory duties, policies and procedures
Completing audits and reviewing practice standards to support continuous improvement
Monitoring case progression and ensuring timely decision-making and intervention
Managing complaints and supporting the resolution of service user and stakeholder concerns
Ensuring accurate recording, documentation and case management across the team
Working closely with operational managers and fellow Team Leaders to deliver service objectives
Promoting person-centred, strengths-based practice across all areas of service delivery
Supporting effective partnership working with health professionals, providers, carers and external agencies
Contributing to service improvements, workforce development initiatives and practice excellence
Ensuring safeguarding responsibilities are fulfilled and risks are appropriately managed
Supporting the implementation of Adult Social Care legislation, policy and best practice guidance

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have,

Professional Qualification

MA, BA or BSc in Social Work, Diploma in Social Work or CQSW

Registration:

Must be registered with Social Work England

Experience:

Significant post-qualified experience within Adult Social Care
Experience working with adults with learning disabilities and complex needs
Previous experience providing supervision, leadership or management support within a social work setting
Experience overseeing complex casework, safeguarding activity and risk management
Experience managing workloads, allocations and operational pressures within a busy team environment
Experience undertaking audits, quality assurance and performance monitoring activities
Experience handling complaints and supporting service improvement initiatives
Strong experience working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and partner agencies

Legislation Knowledge - Strong working knowledge of:

Care Act 2014
Mental Capacity Act 2005
Mental Health Act 1983
Human Rights Act 1998
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
Adult Safeguarding legislation, policies and procedures
Strengths-Based Practice and Personalisation Principles

Skills:

Strong leadership, supervisory and people management skills
Excellent decision-making and professional judgement abilities
Ability to provide effective oversight of complex casework and safeguarding activity
Strong quality assurance, auditing and performance management skills
Ability to manage competing priorities and operational demands effectively
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Strong partnership-working and multi-agency collaboration abilities
Ability to motivate, support and develop practitioners
Excellent organisational and workload management skills
Good IT skills and experience maintaining high-quality records and management oversight

Why Liquid Personnel?

Free DBS and compliance service
Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

BH - 201198
GH - 35671

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