Team Manager

Team Manager Milton Keynes, England

Milton-Keynes-Council
Full Time Milton Keynes, England 48587 - 53465 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Job IntroductionIf you’re an experienced Deputy Manager looking to progress your career, or a Team Manager looking for a new challenge; this could be the next role for you.
Working with adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, autistic adults, brain injury and sensory impairments, our mission is to give everyone a great quality of life, with access to a comfortable home, sustainable and desirable employment, and the chance to live and work in a healthy and safe environment.
You’ll lead, direct and develop our functions, ensuring value for money and high-quality performance in everything we do. Above all, you’ll help us to develop an innovative, creative service that maximises choice and independence to the people we work with.
Within this role you will oversee the management of the deputy managers within the team and work closely with our community health team for adults with a learning disability, autism diagnostic service and colleagues in children services.
For informal enquiries, please contact Zoe Vaughan via email at [email protected] or Yvette Chicharro at [email protected].
Role Responsibilities

  • Lead designated team to ensure continuous improvement, by meeting both relevant health and adult social care national and local performance targets and by setting and meeting service improvement targets, to provide early intervention and targeted and specialist services for adults
  • To provide visible leadership, direction, and drive not only to their Deputy Team Manager and the team they are responsible for but within the service and partnership agencies
  • Service budgets are monitored and controlled, to ensure that financial and performance targets are met and systems are in place to identify pressure areas and respond appropriately
  • To manage the team to ensure continuous improvement, by meeting national and local performance targets and by setting and meeting team improvement targets
  • All Health and Social care policies and procedures are monitored and maintained both within areas of control and across adult social care, delivering a consistent and lawful, application of policy, including meeting the requirements for registration and inspections by the Care Quality Commission (or other future regulatory bodies) clinical governance and other statutory bodies

Ideal Candidate

  • Has a relevant professional social work qualification and ideally a management qualification or equivalent
  • Be able to evidence continuous professional development
  • Proven track record of success in a front-line service delivery environment
  • Experience of service delivery, including statutory obligations within local or central government or private sector
  • Experience of working in a demanding and complex customer environment; consulting with customers to ensure that we are providing what they need to the required standards, keeping customers involved in changes and developments that may affect them and balancing different customer needs and expectations
  • Evidence of ability to manage crisis situations in a calm and proactive manner
  • Ability to lead and motivate others

About The CompanyMilton Keynes is a diverse, welcoming, and expanding place, built on smart ideas with even bigger plans for the future. We have world class attractions, beautiful open spaces, and a great standard of living.
Milton Keynes City Council is one of the largest employers in the region, making a difference every day for local people. We’re responsible for all local government services in MK including education, housing, highways, and social services - around 240 services in all.
Our values are to be dedicated, respectful, and collaborative. If this sounds like you, join us for a stimulating and fulfilling career measured on results, and a rewarding work-life balance.
Package DescriptionWe are really proud of the benefits we are able to offer our staff here at Milton Keynes City Council, including:-

  • Local Government Pension Scheme, considered to be one of the best employer contribution rates of 18.8%.
  • 27 days annual leave per year in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years. (From April 2023 this will increase to 28, and 32 days after 5 years)
  • Holiday Purchase Scheme.
  • Our Professional Development Centre provides access to courses such as in-house management development programmes endorsed by the Institute of Leadership, coaching and mentoring and access to our Smarter Learning portal
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Health Cashplan.
  • MK Advantage benefits package – a range of savings on a wide range of retail, leisure and entertainment products and services such as Pizza Express, M&S, B&Q, John Lewis and Arriva Travel.
  • Blue Light Card - Employees working within Social Care can qualify for a range of discounts from national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more!
  • SmartGo – Aimed at encouraging low-carbon transport and healthy lifestyle with discounted travel e.g. Halfords, Arriva, Europcar, National Railcards and Stagecoach.
  • Homebuy Scheme (for eligible roles).
  • Smarter working which provides the opportunity to work from various locations including from home for a proportion of your role (subject to business needs).
  • A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity entitlements.
  • Childcare Subsidy.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £48,587.00-£53,465.00 per year

Team Manager
Milton-Keynes-Council

www.milton-keynes.gov.uk
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Michael Bracey
Unknown / Non-Applicable
501 to 1000 Employees
Government
Municipal Agencies
1974
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