Team Manager

Permanent Contract | £45,395 to £49,379 per annum (Scale L) | 37 hours per week | Priory House, Kings Lynn or Havenbridge House, Great Yarmouth

We offer a £2000 welcome payment for qualified and Team Managers new to Norfolk County Council.

Are you passionate about person centred, strength’s-based approaches to supporting people and carers? Positive about change and supporting others to make changes to ways of working? Confident in using data to ensure your team is having a positive impact?

Norfolk Adult Social Care is transforming our ways of working. At the heart of the Connecting Communities work is achieving better outcomes and better experiences for the people we support, based on the things that they tell us matter to them.

We have an ambitious programme of work to adopt new ways of working in Community Care Teams that strives for more people living in an ideal setting with the right level of care and being well connected to their social networks while actively contributing to their local community. To achieve this, we are investing in new Team Managers to build on the excellent practice already happening and support local teams to adopt and sustain new ways of working.

The successful postholders will have a track record of collaborative leadership, a strong professional background in promoting independence and experience of positively implementing change and transformation.

The role will include:

championing and implementing new ways of working

engaging with teams and the wider department

delivering training & coaching peers and practitioners in adopting the new ways of working

identifying and implementing solutions to barriers and challenges in achieving outcomes

producing and using data to measure impact

working with external agencies to support recovery and transformation

As the Connecting Communities ways of working are adopted successfully and having the desired impact, the postholder will then fulfil the ordinary full responsibilities of a Team Manager role in their locality.

Postholders will be receive support, supervision and training and have close links with the Connecting Community Programme team. Norfolk County Council supports hybrid working practices – working from offices, home and other settings to fulfil your role.

For further information about the posts or to have an informal discussion, please contact Nick Pryke, Operations Director – Recovery & Transformation on 07917636635 or Mark Lewis – Dementia Business Lead on 07435802477.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependant on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses paid upfront (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.
    

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date: 3 0 April 2023 at 23:59