Assistant Service Manager - Enablement Adult Social Care

Assistant Service Manager - Enablement Adult Social Care

Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity to progress your career and deliver on health and social care priorities?

Do you thrive working within and leading a fast paced, multi-disciplinary health and social care setting?

If the answer is yes, we have the perfect the role for you. 

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are seeking to recruit an outstanding Assistant Service Manager, to lead our Enablement Team. 

Our vision is to support people to lead longer healthy and happy lives. We put people at the centre of everything we do, promote independence, choice and control.  We endeavour to promote wellbeing and choice, supporting residents to remain active in their communities and to retain their independence for as long as possible. 

About the service 

We are committed to positive, ambitious and person centred outcomes for people, ensuring that our residents receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time. 

The Enablement Team supports Wandsworth residents to regain their independence through a period of Reablement. Working closely with our Reablement home care providers, hospital social work teams and health colleagues, the Enablement Team has an integral role within the organisation to promote independence and support service users, to live well in their own homes. Reablement can mean regaining the ability to move around the home safely and access the community with confidence as well as support with regaining skills in daily living, so as not to be over dependent on care. 

The team is made up of Occupational Therapists and Social Care Assessors who work alongside Social Workers and health partners to deliver a Reablement model of care, utilising adaptive equipment and assistive technology, with smart goal setting 

About The Role:

Leadership and Management: You will be innovative, inspirational and creative in managing your team, helping us to deliver safe and well-coordinated hospital discharges. You will lead the team and have oversight of referrals from acute and non-acute hospitals settings and the community, tracking the progress of reablement plans and flow.

Experience: you will be a dynamic, ambitious and committed leader, with experience of working as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team and committed to achieving positive outcomes for residents. 

Knowledge:  Our service is required to work swiftly in response to hospital discharge and community demand so you will have the ability to think quickly and act calmly whilst making smart decisions. You will have skills in risk management when leading a team, using good knowledge of relevant health and social care legislation and guidance to ensure best practice and user well being.

Professional Development: Embracing opportunities for personal and professional growth to enhance your current skills and experience of leading and inspiring a team, this role will give you the potential for career progression into senior management

Qualifications and Skills:

You will:

• hold a qualification in Occupational Therapy or Social Work and registration with SWE/HCPC
• have a good understanding of how occupational therapy can support independence 
• be an innovative, energetic and dynamic manager, or aspiring manager, with experience of leading in a health and social care setting
• have excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• be able to embrace change, whilst maintaining high quality practice and performance
• have strong skills in partnership working with Health partners and external organisations
• be committed to equality diversity and inclusion, for our staff and in our service delivery to residents 
• To be successful in this role, you will share our values and ambition for integrating health and social care in our discharge to assess service and our community offer.

Recruitment Timeline

Closing Date:  Sunday 1st December 2024

Shortlisting Date: W/C 2nd December 2024

Interview Date: TBC