Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 37 per week

Salary: Grade H4 SCP 41 - 46 £49,498 - £54,718 per annum

Closing Date: 10th October 2024 at 23:59pm

Team Manager Adult Social Care (Community Team)

We have a great opportunity for an experienced manager to help us lead Adult Social Care in Blackpool in delivering excellent local services. You will have a strong commitment in continuing to build our robust professional workforce, a keen interest in staff development, and the ability to form productive working relationships with other agencies. This includes our health colleagues, with whom we have excellent working relationships, and we are looking for someone with the enthusiasm and experience to proactively lead this work.

Blackpool Community Adults Social Work teams work generically with all adults who require support to live well in their communities, working alongside other agencies to facilitate this. We also work closely with colleagues in more specialist teams when joint work is required For Example with our Learning Disabilities and Mental Health teams.

We have a small and supportive management structure and are looking for a team manager with a strong interest in delivering a quality service and working alongside staff to ensure they are equipped and motivated to achieve this. If this role sounds like it will meet your professional ambitions and you relish the challenges that working in Blackpool can bring, we look forward to hearing from you.

For further information on this vacancy please contact Christine.Forsyth@blackpool.gov.uk

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are protected and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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