DBS0614 Team Manager

The Community Learning Disability Team work extremely closely with our colleagues in Northumbria Healthcare to ensure that our service users always benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach.

The team have been trained in the Ways to Wellbeing strengths-based model of practice and as a leader you will be dedicated to seeing it further embedded within the service and work collaboratively with the team and other managers to ensure a quality service with meaningful outcomes for our users and families.

As part of the management team, you will be expected to provide a high quality of supervision, you will be able to think of innovative ideas to promote performance improvements and to instil the values of we listen, we care, we are ambitious and value for money safer.

You will lead the teams you are responsible for and will receive regular support and supervision from the Senior Manager. You will be part of a wider network of team managers. You will be supported to build excellent working relationships with staff, residents and partners, to make our vision a reality.

We invest in our workforce and are immensely proud to be in the top 5 social work employers in the country in the Standards for Employers of Social Workers Health Check 2024.

What's it like to work for us?
We know how you work is important.

Our strengths-based approach helps people to transform their lives. Known as 'Ways to Wellbeing', we focus on getting to know the individual and what matters most to them: building the life they want, close to the people they care about.

We will provide you with an environment where your work can thrive. Through regular, supportive supervision, unrivalled team spirit, and manageable workloads, you'll be supported to build excellent working relationships with the people you support. While we welcome applicants who are experienced in working with people with learning disabilities, we'll also support and coach people new to this field.

We believe in developing our social workers, so you can both achieve your ambitions and make a real difference to the lives of residents in North Tyneside. You can find out more about the development opportunities available to our social workers, whatever stage of your career you're at, in the supporting documents section.

Why work for us?
We're proud to have a high number of staff who choose North Tyneside as their career for life. Here is what some of our brilliant colleagues have to say about working here:

"North Tyneside really encourages development, and wants you to be the best person you can be when you're working in this role" - Mollie, Social Worker, Whole Life Disability

"We all work together as a team; we all look after each other." Nicola, Social Worker, Community Wellbeing

With nationally recognised services, ambitious plans for the future and a thriving service for children and adults, there's no better time to join North Tyneside Council.

The successful candidate will need to have a professional qualification in social or health care to Degree level (or recognised equivalent) and have appropriate supervisory experience. We are looking for candidates to be enthusiastic and dedicated to providing the best service for adults with a learning disability, their Parents, and carers.

At North Tyneside Council, people are at the heart of everything we do. There is a very exciting opportunity to join the Adults Learning Disabilities Team management team.

You will be one of two managers managing the Adults Learning Disabilities Team and the Community Enablement Team, however, you will be working very closely with the Whole Life Disability Team Managers in Children's to ensure a smooth transition process in disability services across children's and adults social care.