INTERNAL APPLICATIONS ONLY Practice Manager

Salary: PO4-PO5 £49,056- £55,323 (Full Time) Retention Bonus: £2000, payable in £1000 December and June or pro-rata if Part-time

Contract Type: Full-time & Part-time Permanent Working hours per week: 36 hours including occasional weekends and Bank Holidays.

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough.

Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities.

Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers.

This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace.

This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

The Council’s preference is for online application.

However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

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We are seeking high calibre and creative experienced applicants who, like us, are committed to building on residents’ strengths and their natural support networks, rather than simply assessing people to determine their eligibility for a service. We are looking for Practice Managers to lead, support, encourage and provide excellent supervision for a team who firmly believe that it is essential to give the residents who we serve as much choice and control as possible over their day to day lives, especially at a time when they have been unwell and still need time to recover and build up their resilience and strength. As a Practice manager, you will demonstrate competence in the Safeguarding Framework/Timescales and Thresholds.

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Key Responsibilities: To actively lead, support and supervise members of the HART Team whilst the team:

• Engage with individuals, carers, families, groups and communities to assess and intervene preventatively using professional judgment, and develop person-led Support Plans to meet the needs of individuals that promote choice, control and independence.
• Be able to use a strength-based approach to assessment to support individuals to identify and develop their support networks and consider positive risk taking to enhance their wellbeing.
• Be able to identify safeguarding concerns if vulnerable residents have experienced harm and carry out section 42 enquiries where needed.
• Be responsible for delivering high-quality and legally compliant social support in a timely way to agreed standards.
• To be able to complete court fit mental capacity assessments and engage the resident and their families in any best interest decision where appropriate.
• Be knowledgeable in NRTPF

This PM role will support the Reablement and ACUTE hospital pathways, scrutinising data and providing reports.

In addition it would be a requirement to undertake the Practice Educators role.

To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements:

To be considered for this position, you will need substantial experience in working in adult social care, or be able to demonstrate transferable skills to meet the needs of this post.

You will also need to hold a current registration with Social Work England and be able to provide

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;

Satisfactory declaration of interest;

This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;

Satisfactory DBS check;

Continued professional body registration;

As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English.

This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role.

This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations.

It does not require staff to speak only in English.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below.

This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting.

The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first.

This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme.

For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments.

Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council.

If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Sharon Samain at Sharon.Samain@walthamforest.gov.uk

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.

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