Organisation: Leicestershire County Council 

Work Location: County Hall

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £46,404 - £50,865 per annum 

Working Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 29th April 2024

An exciting opportunity for a Team Manager has arisen in the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Service. The role includes providing day-to-day direction and supervision to front line BIAs and administrative staff to ensure the delivery of a high quality, person-centred, accountable, statutory DoLS service.

The office base for this post is County Hall.

The DoLS Service is well regarded nationally and is well resourced to deal with a large number of referrals each year. 

The Team

The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Service manages the DoLS Legal Framework for Leicestershire County Council and Rutland County Council. The Service works within legislation including Human Rights Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. 

The duties of the service includes receiving and processing DoLS referrals to their conclusion whilst appointing suitably qualified and trained assessors, managing the procurement and contracts of external stakeholder such as Paid Person’s Representatives and working in line with the DoLS Regulations 2008. 

The Service works closely with colleagues within the Local Authority, NHS, care providers offering MCA and DoLS guidance and advice. 

Job Purpose

• To ensure that staff can provide good outcomes for people by implementing the department’s operating model and ways of working to deliver social care 
• To provide technical and professional support to team members 
• To improve ways of working for staff by supporting and implementing improved working between teams and partner agencies
• To manage staffing budgets and staff performance using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity, capability and delivery 
• To ensure the effective management of team performance and resources
• To provide performance and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and the Head of Service

Experience of working with MCA/DOLS or as a BIA would be an advantage.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have extensive previous management experience in a social care setting
• Have a sound knowledge of the Legislation relevant to the service 
• Experience of stakeholder and relationship management
• Experience of business planning 
• Proven experience in budget management and in delivering significant efficient savings
• Theoretical, practical and procedural knowledge of social work and social care legislation including MCA, DoLS policy and best practice
• An understanding of, and commitment to Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations

We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Interested in Flexible Working?

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. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc. 

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site. 

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Andy Dengate – Resourcing Co-ordinator

Telephone: 0116 305 0914

Email: andy.dengate@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

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.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Stonewall Top 100, Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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