Team Manager - Learning Disabilities

Our Client Camden Council is looking for a Team Manager to join their Adults Integrated Learning Disabilities Service.

As Team Manager, you will lead and manage multidisciplinary practitioner staff, including other qualified professionals, within Supporting People directorate to provide high quality, comprehensive, and effective service delivery. You will collaborate closely with the managers and clinicians in the wider multidisciplinary team covering the following specialisms, such as Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Psychiatry.

Role Purpose:

• To lead and manage multidisciplinary practitioner staff, including other qualified professionals, within Supporting People directorate to provide high quality, comprehensive, and effective service delivery.
• To collaborate closely with the managers and clinicians in the wider multidisciplinary team covering the following specialisms: Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychological Therapies, Speech and Language Therapy and Childrens and Young People with Disabilities Service 0-25.
• To provide operational leadership, including developing and embedding a strengths based practice approach, by influencing and changing practice behaviours.
• To ensure that service resources are managed in a planned and strategic way to deliver local and national practice standards and strategic imperatives.
• To contribute to the design, commissioning and delivery of services that respond to the changing needs of the community to support organisational change and enable citizens to resolve their difficulties, improve their personal outcomes and live a good quality of life including answering of complaints.
• To manage, supervise and provide expert advice, to direct reports, supporting clinical solutions including a focus on complexity and risk.
• To provide regular reviews of business practice to promote and champion high quality services. This will involve the audit and evaluation of practice and intervention and the deployment of resources in an effective and strategic manner.
• To continue to lead a closer integration with health partners and build strong relationships with multi-agency services, both internal and external.
• To effectively use and translate statutory, community, voluntary and independent resources within the context of Government legislation, Council and Departmental policy to enhance best practice and contribute to better outcomes including a particular focus on the Care Act 2014.
• The post holder will deputise where necessary for the Service Manager including funding decisions.
• As a Safeguarding Adults Manager, the post holder will ensure that all safeguarding concerns and enquiries are appropriately assessed and prioritised, that all organisational policies and procedures are followed, and that proportionate recording is completed on the required systems.
• To oversee First Contact (duty) management responsibility across CLDS ensuring the delivery of the highest standards of care for people with Learning Disabilities and their families/carers.
• To be project lead on either the 'Named Worker' relationship based approach to working with people living in commissioned accommodation out of borough, including overseeing work on Continuing Health Care out of borough or to lead on the management oversight of the dedicated First Contact (duty) service.
• The post holder will be accountable for the effective management of a care budget delegated to them.

Benefits of working with Remedy:

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs.
• Competitive Referral scheme.
• Double payrolls each week.

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. To be considered for this role, please apply with your CV to on the social care team. Remedy Social Care is a REC Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.