Job Description

Job Title: Deputy Team Manager
Location: Watford General Hospital
Starting Salary: \xc2\xa348,923 with the opportunity to progress to a maximum of \xc2\xa354,145 (pro rata for part-time)
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent

Diversity: We are an inclusive employer and value a diverse workforce

Job Duties:

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Watford General Hospital Integrated Discharge Team for the role of Deputy Team Manager. In this role you will support a large team to safely and quickly discharge Hertfordshire residents home from hospital; working to promote independence and ensure excellent practice at all times.

To improve outcomes for service users, the Hospital Team support a 7-day service. The successful candidate will therefore be asked to work on consecutive Saturdays and Sundays once every eight weeks and will receive days off during the weeks before and after covering a weekend. The successful candidate will be based at Watford General Hospital but will be required to travel to other sites across the County. The successful applicants will be able to evidence sound knowledge of safeguarding practice, working with people with dementia, the personalisation agenda, and Individual Budgets. You will keep the user and any future potential users at the centre of all activity and address user needs within the legislative framework.

You will support the Team Manager to lead and manage a busy, dispersed social care team, who provide a seven-day service to Hertfordshire residents who are admitted to community and out of county hospitals. You will work closely with the Team Manager, Central London Community Hospitals Trust and Integrated Care System to ensure the team complete timely and effective social care systems, whilst ensuring good patient flow. You will deputise for the Team Manager system-wide, and other meetings to ensure that the team provides an effective and robust service.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establishing day-to-day practice of the Team, ensuring compliance to relevant policies and procedures and an effective performance management approach.
• Managing the practice and performance of the team to ensure the timely and effective completion of discharges and reviews.
• To inspire, lead, manage and nurture a team of professionals (Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, and Community Care Officers) that can operate innovatively and creatively in order to meet the needs of Hertfordshire citizens.
• Building positive relationships with key partners delivering.
• Effective management of resources and budgets and assurance of quality.

Act as the Deputy lead manager in complex / high profile safeguarding and or serious concerns processes.

Additional Information

Within the role of Deputy Team Manager you will have the opportunity to support ongoing service delivery and improving outcomes with a focus on

• The Discharge to Assess model of practice
• Ensuring Connected Lives Principles is embedded within hospital discharge practice
• Work with the virtual hospital
• Working with West Herts Trust to improve discharge quality and the outcomes achieved

Maturation of the Single Point of Contact

You must be a registered Social Worker or Occupational Therapist with experience of managing people and performance. You will also have experience of leading and managing change. The successful candidate will have the ability to influence the workings of other services and you will be a skilled communicator who can work with competing demands for services. You will be comfortable with managing a team who will primarily be out of the office located in other bases who are undertaking assessments to support safe appropriate discharges to the community.

Closing Date: 9th July 2023
Interview Date: w/c 17th July 2023

For an informal discussion and more information please contact: *Bethany.Appleton@hertfordshire.gov.uk 07812 322920

Benefits of working for us:

• Flexible Working Arrangements (depending on the role)
• Excellent Career Development
• Salary Exchange for Additional Benefits
• Excellent Pension Scheme with Employer Contributions
• Shopping Discounts
• Support Groups & Wellbeing Schemes

Disability Confident: We are proud to be a and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

English Fluency: The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required).

Safeguarding: Safeguarding children and adults is of utmost importance to Hertfordshire County Council. The Council requires employees to abide by legislation and best practice to enable Hertfordshire to achieve this. This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. For more information

Driving Roles Only: As part of this role, you will be required to travel to other HCC Sites/Residences either using your own mode of transport or a company car. In light of this, the ability to drive and/or travel around the County is required for this role a DVLA check will be required on appointment.

How to Apply

As part of the application, you will be required to upload your most recent CV ensuring gaps in employment have been addressed and asked to answer the 4 key questions which are located at the end of the advert and a template can be found in the \'Available Documents\'.

1.Outline your professional experience and how you would transfer these skills to a Deputy Team Manager role within the Integrated Discharge Service.

2.Demonstrate your experience of leadership within an adult social care context

3.Outline your experience of supervising and mentoring team members to improve practice and manage complex cases

4.Give an example of using social care legislation to inform the complex case direction you have provided to a colleague

If you do not provide answers to the questions and upload to your application, your application will be rejected.

Hertfordshire County Council