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Directorate:  Adult Care, Housing and Public Health

Post Details: Team Manager- My Front Door(MFD) Learning Disability Team 2  

Contract details: Permanent, 37 hours per week.

If you are looking to make the move to Rotherham, subject to qualifying conditions, relocation support of up to £8,000, may be available. Further information is available on our Adult Social Care recruitment site, see the link below. 

We are always delighted to receive applications from talented candidates, and we know you don’t want to wait too long to hear back from us - so we are committed to actively reviewing applications as they arrive and will be in touch to arrange interviews with suitable candidates as soon as possible.

Now is the time to come and work for Rotherham Council’s Adult Social Care. For more information about Rotherham Adult Social Care jobs, please visit: https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/adults-social-care-jobs 

An exciting opportunity has become available for a second team manager, due to the ongoing development and expansion of learning disability services in Rotherham Adult Social Care.     

Rotherham is on an exciting journey to transform its Adult Social Care service to ensure every adult is supported to maximise their independence and be safe, healthy and well. Our One Rotherham Values ensure we are committed to be Honest, Accountable, Respectful, Ambitious and Proud in everything that we do. 

Rotherham is an amazing place to live and work, with its historic Town Centre, country parks, woodlands, and nature reserves.

Rotherham is well connected to the other fine towns and cities in South Yorkshire both by road and by a comprehensive public transport network - including the UK’s first tram-train connecting Rotherham and Sheffield, pioneering cleaner, greener ways to travel.   

About our Team  

The ethos of the My Front Door, Learning Disability team, is to ensure that every person with a learning disability/autism has access to support, services and opportunities via their own Front Door.  

Across all of society we are seeing people’s aspirations and needs changing and becoming more diverse. The people of Rotherham with a learning disability/autism, have been telling people who commission and provide services that they want the same opportunities to achieve their dreams as anyone else. People want access to their local and wider community, employment opportunities, leisure time, friendships, and to travel as independently as possible around the borough.  

In the My Front Door team, we aim to support people to build on their strengths, achieve their outcomes, and be connected to their community. Our staff are exceptionally committed and are passionate about working in Rotherham, for the people of Rotherham.     

As a learning disability/autism team, we have been transforming our LD/autism services and as such have expanded the number of people, we are able to support. We cover the whole of the borough and have bases both at our Riverside and Maltby offices.

We work with adults of all ages, from leaving the Transitions service to older adults who have a learning disability/autism and where a review of their needs is necessary. This could be due to their annual review or a change in their long- and short-term needs. We work holistically with professionals, families and carers and ensure that the person remains at the centre of all the support we aim to offer.    

Every day is different, and the breadth of work spans across duty interventions, assessment and care management, safeguarding adults, and court of protection work. If you are looking for a role to make the best of your skills and experience this is role for you!  

About You  

You will lead a team of Social Work qualified and vocationally qualified staff to deliver an evidence based, strengths service to adults with eligible needs under the Care Act 2014. It will be your role to ensure that services and support is provided in accordance with the legal frameworks governing Adult Social Care including the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Making Safeguarding Personal and Continuing Healthcare Frameworks. You will ensure that you and the team uphold the principles of Rotherham’s Adult Social Care Pathway, which aims to support people to live as full and independent a life as possible in the community.     

As a Team Manager, you will be expected to coordinate caseloads and case allocations to ensure minimum waiting times for customers. You will quality assure assessment work, ensuring that a strength and assets-based approach is utilised and that work is reviewed and recorded to a high standard. You will maintain oversight and responsibility of the performance of the team and be willing to work flexibly to meet the needs of the team and the service. Team Managers are also required to plan for annual leave, identifying delegated authority to ensure the continuation of a high-quality service.      

This role is required to work closely with practice and quality assurance leads across to structure to embed best practice and ensure quality of our services is to a high standard. 

We are looking to recruit exceptional people with the right values, skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to further enhancing and embedding strengths-based practice; focusing on people and the outcomes they wish to achieve where our ethos is ‘home first’.    

Rotherham has a good track record of achieving positive outcomes for people through being innovative and progressive as evidenced by our award-winning teams and individuals. This is further strengthened by our strong working relationships with a wide range of partners including the NHS, police, the community, voluntary sector and the independent care sector.  

If you are a compassionate, innovative, and resilient with the drive to deliver ever improving performance outcomes for the people of Rotherham, then this is the role for you. In return we can offer considerable professional growth and development within an environment that is both supportive and stretching, along with a generous benefits package which is outlined in the document attached.    

Want to Talk to Us?  

For an informal and confidential discussion about this opportunity please contact:

Sarah McClarty-Operations Manager via email: sarah.mcclarty@rotherham.gov.uk

Emma Fitzpatrick-Team Manager via email: emma.fitzpatrick@rotherham.gov.uk

It is a great time to join us, and we welcome your application.   

Interviews: 1nd & 3rd May 2023    

This post involves working with adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme and can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check    

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. For further information, please visit our website.

From 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a weekly / monthly deduction (dependent on pay frequency) from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded of three additional day’s leave (pro rata for part-time)

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.