Social Work Principal Manager – Adult Assessment Services

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Principal Manager to join a well-established Adults service based in Merthyr Tydfil. 

Team/Specialism: Adult Assessment

Salary: £52,542 – £54,589 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time 

Duties:

• Be responsible for delivering the strategic and operational outcomes for the Adult Assessment services
• Care Management for adults and adult mental health
• Initial Support Services including Adult Duty and Community OT
• Adult Safeguarding
• Carers Support
• Leading, planning, recruiting, developing and inspiring others to ensure the effective delivery of the services for which the job holder is directly responsible to achieve strategic outcomes
• Ensure that Managers and their teams have a clear understanding about the Service’s Strategy, Performance Targets and the required standards of practice
• Closely monitor performance, working with colleagues to swiftly highlight and address any negative changes in a way that assures that the service is able to achieve performance agreed targets
• Deputise for the Head of Service as required and directed
• Manage and supervise the allocated Team Managers and service providers in Adult Services and ensure effective staff supervision programmes and to provide temporary management oversight of the work of other Principal Managers if they are absent from work
• Contribute to the arrangements for accounting to elected members, including the attendance at boards and committees and the preparation of and presentation of reports
• Maximising the use of resources and monitoring the effectiveness of the use of those resources in pursuit of delivering the services aims, objectives and priorities

Requirements of the Principal Manager:

• Social Work or related health qualification
• Current Social Work England registration
• The ability to communicate with diverse staff groups
• Ability to establish, monitor and control operational budgets
• Ability to establish and maintain systems of performance management and quality assurance
• IT literate (use of Teams for meetings purposes)
• Experience of managing an Adult team or equivalent Service
• Experience of successful partnership working with other agencies
• Experience of managing change in organisational activities and in establishing strategies to guide activity
• Evidence of successful budgetary management
• Experience of working within the Adut Safeguarding requirements
• Car driver with business insurance cover

Contact:

This Principal Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.