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SalaryAre you passionate about making a positive and lasting difference for the people of Swindon? Are you able to contribute to achieving our vision of enabling every person to live the life that matters to them, with the people they value and love in the places and communities they call home? Where no one is left behind.
It is an exciting time of change at Swindon Borough Council, as we continue to review, refine and redesign our operating model, how we work collaboratively with our residents, communities and providers.
As part of our development and restructure, Swindon have recently created an Adult MASH to co-ordinate our adult referrals and provide a multi-agency approach, working together with partners to ensure adults live in safety and free from abuse and neglect.
Your next role
This post will report into the Team Manager of MASH. As an Assistant Team Manager, you will contribute to the support and development of our Adult MASH which is still within its Infancy and provide great supervision and support to social workers within the team. You will work closely with Managers, Assistant Team Managers, both in MASH and across Adult Social Care, and partner agency colleagues. You will support your manager to develop and deliver high performing teams to improve and achieve best outcomes for vulnerable adults in Swindon
You will work with the council’s Safeguarding Quality and Performance Framework to effectively monitor and develop performance across Safeguarding and ensure the team are working within the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal and that these are applied appropriately through the business.
In line with our values, you will be motivated by achieving the best outcomes for residents. You will be proactive in looking for opportunities to improve our residents safeguarding experience of our services and open to supporting communities to embrace change, innovation and opportunities to co-produce services; working with people with lived experience and their carers in the safe delivery and evaluation of services.
You will bring passion and commitment, achieving creative engagement with people with lived experience and their families and promoting effective safeguarding.
Candidates must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act – for the effective performance of a customer-facing role).
You must be a qualified social worker and registered with Social Work England.
Our transformation journey
Like all other local authorities, we are experiencing an increase in demand. As an organisation we know our Adults’ Services are on a rapid improvement journey which is why last year we started making big changes across the service to provide the best care for children and great conditions for our staff. This started with us recruiting an entirely new leadership team of experienced, forward thinking managers who are driving changes in the service and we aim to be one of the best Adults’ Services in the country.
Improvements include:
- Multi-million pound investment in staff and support
- Significant restructure creating smaller social worker teams
- New intuitive IT system to cut down on desk time and make mobile working the norm
- High standards for management practice, support and supervision for staff
- Listening to our social workers by holding regular social work forums.
At the heart of it all is our desire to promote and cultivate a strong learning culture combined with outstanding leadership and supervision. Here is what you can expect to find when you arrive:
- Early help and community health practitioners co-located with our social workers, providing great working relationships
- Fantastic relationships with partner agencies such as the police and Swindon CCG
- Teams located within communities, providing a closer connection to the people we work with
Our new offer to you
We recognise that getting the best outcomes for our Adults means getting the best from you and we have listened to what our Social Workers and our Managers most value.
Please see our Rewards and Benefits offer for more details.
As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.
For Swindon to thrive in the future, we need to lay the foundations now. It’s why our regeneration and transformation programmes are already underway. So, you’ll be joining us at an exciting time on our journey. We’ll look to you to share your knowledge, influence decisions and drive real, positive change. With your contributions, we’ll achieve our vision of a prosperous, re-vitalised Swindon together. And you’ll be proud to say it was made better with you.
Please see our Vison and Values page for more details
Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you are a registered practitioner and meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.
Your next steps
Read the role profile and select the Apply button where you will be redirected to the Swindon Borough Council website to complete our online application process. Clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this job website is not an application, you must register on the Swindon Borough Council website in order to be considered for the role.
For further information about the role please contact Amber Webster, Team Manager for MASH. Email address: awebster@swindon.gov.uk
As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion
If you are experiencing technical issues submitting your application please email resourcing@swindon.gov.uk
