Assistant Team Manager (Frimley Park Hospital)

Joining our multi-disciplinary Hospital Team as an Assistant Team Manager, you’ll work with both health and social care colleagues to deliver excellent social work services that make a real difference to adults in need of social care. As a fully qualified Social Worker experienced in safeguarding, complex case work, resource allocation and funding, you’ll be passionate about working with people to achieve the best outcomes – enabling people to be safe and as independent as possible, so they can live the lives they want. 

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about.  Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application. 

Your focus as an Assistant Team Manager is to lead and manage our Senior Case Workers and Social Workers alongside managing your own small, but complex, case load. With a shared responsibility for leading and managing within the wider team, you’ll support our duty function, deputise for the Team Manager and assist in the strategic planning and delivery of the service in line with our governance principles.  

Using your excellent communication and relationship building skills, you’ll enjoy developing successful and positive relationships with individuals and professional health staff, both inside and outside of the hospital team.

We value the outstanding contribution our Assistant Team Managers make to our service. We can offer you a great learning environment in a team that values professional development, offers regular supervision and supports one another, alongside our extensive Benefits package. 

Travel Requirements 

You will be required to travel to various locations within Hampshire or other local authority, and it is essential that you have a current drivers’ licence and access to a reliable vehicle on a regular basis.   

Values Based Recruitment:

We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application.  For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.

Additional Information:

Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process. 

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Sarah Hutchinson, Team Manager on Sarah.Hutchinson@hants.gov.uk