Safeguarding Adults Community Team Manager - North Kent in Dartford

Purpose of the Job:

Responsible for the overall delivery of the team ensuring that all agreed service plans
and statutory responsibilities are met, and quality services delivered. The role has
responsibility for ensuring that services are outcome-focused, that the needs of people
with care and support needs and their carers are met, risks are mitigated as far as
possible and that the effective use of resources is maximised.

Main duties and responsibilities:

1. Provide professional, strategic, operational and motivational leadership of staff including recruitment, training and development and creating a learning culture within the team to facilitate continuous improvement. Ensure that the different skills, experience and knowledge of team members are harnessed to maximise the benefits of an integrated approach to service delivery for people with care and support needs and their carers

2. Drive consistent high standards of practice in line with the Practice Framework ensuring that the team carry out their statutory functions including the effective and timely delivery of assessments, interventions and support promoting person centred creative care and support planning

3. Hold lead responsibility for statutory adult safeguarding, promoting best practice in making safeguarding personal, and ensuring effective action is taken to manage and reduce risk for people with care and support needs and their carers

4. Drive performance, quality assurance and innovation for the service area in line with national and departmental targets and standards and to support the Department and Corporate Strategies. Accountable for delivering services within budget, driving innovation locally to ensure effective use of limited financial resources.

5. To build and promote positive relationships with partner organisations, representing the department at partnership forums. Develop a strong understanding of the local community and build relationships with community leaders. Build and promote positive relationships with residents and people we support, leading on the co-production activities and engagement with resident forums

6. Act as professional lead, on behalf of the division, for a specific aspect of Adult Social Care and Health, developing links with other teams across the Council, including the Principal Social Worker.

7. Develop and advise on commissioning strategies, where appropriate, in collaboration with commissioning within the area and across adult social care and health working in partnership with social care providers.

8. Maintain the service to operate during its operating hours and be part of an on-call rota if necessary

Organisational Responsibilities KSJ and above All corporate directors, directors and senior managers have an explicit responsibility to deliver the collective agenda of the Council. These are fundamental elements of their role not an addition and are summarised as follows:

Whole Council

* Seek to improve the lives of all residents in Kent and the economy of Kent

* Act as corporate parent to the Council's looked after children

* Take an active role in promoting and ensuring the Council's responsibilities for safeguarding are met.

* Understand, communicate and contribute to the delivery of KCC's strategic aims

* Meet statutory obligations and promote and ensure compliance with policies and procedures and the Council's Code of Conduct (Kent Code).

* Advise elected members and support the democratic process

* Promote the Council brand and enhance the overall reputation of the Council

* Understand and monitor the measures of performance, including customer insight, which define successful outcomes for KCC services

* Maintain and ensure a relentless focus on the customer

* Act to support the Council-wide need to deliver services within budget, thereby avoiding an overspend that could damage the financial viability of the Council

* Overcome professional and service silos to achieve the County Council's objectives.

Integration of Services

* Focus resources where they have the biggest impact

* Deliver services that are flexible and adaptable

* Integrate services within KCC and work with partner agencies to ensure a seamless customer experience

* Fully and inclusively engage all staff in the delivery of services, demonstrating the Council's leadership values and competencies. Embedding Commissioning and Engaging relevant markets

* Establish an outcome focused organisation

* Meet the financial regulations and standing orders of KCC

* Challenge the status quo and engage with the market to constantly improve

* Ensure all services are delivered effectively and efficiently

* Proactively and continuously seek to improve service delivery

* Proactively manage risk to avoid inertia whilst not exposing the Council to needless and avoidable challenge or loss Managing Change

* Understand and support the Authority's overall change agenda

* Deliver required outcomes of service specific change on time and to budget

* Understand the quality of staff, support their development, nurture those with talent

* Identify the skills for the future and the level of staff through robust workforce planning

* Identify and deal with under performance.

* Deliver to agreed budget and income targets.

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