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Salary:£52,413 - £54,495
Hours per week:37 hours
Interview date:Friday 12 September 2025
Main duties of the job
Learning Disabilities & Autism Service Supporting Independence and Well-Being
Join our dynamic Learning Disabilities & Autism Service where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our service. Located in Salisbury, this position caters to the South region of the county.
We will prioritise your well-being by providing a fantastic work environment, offering clear paths for career progression, and promoting a healthy work-life balance through flexible working opportunities.
As a Team Manager, your goal is to represent and enhance high practice standards, through application of the Quality Assurance Framework, striving for continuous improvement within the team, service and organisation. This involves a multifaceted approach that involves significant experience and skills in relation to embedding and promoting person-centred / strength-based discussion, accurate record-keeping, risk management, safeguarding, supervision, leadership, and adherence to policies and procedures.
With a minimum of 5 years' post-qualification experience in a social care setting, you should demonstrate extensive professional development since qualification. Holding a DipSW level qualification or its equivalent, along with Social Work England registration, which is essential.
Join us in making a difference in the lives of our community members while advancing your career in a supportive and evolving environment.
About us
Why us?
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. Thats why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right.
The council is committed to creating an environment of positive working relationships where everyone feels engaged, supported and able to thrive. Our Identity is a framework which sets out how we are all expected to lead, work and act to deliver our services. We will not tolerate discrimination, bullying or harassment of any kind. Everyone is expected to promote a culture of inclusion, dignity, trust and respect which is underpinned by our vision and Our Identity framework.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- The post holder is responsible to the Head of Service - Operations, and will be
accountable for the day to day operational leadership and management of the LDAS
team across Wiltshire.
- The Learning Disabilities and autism Leadership Team ensures that the specialist
health and social care operational service is delivered to the highest standards as
determined by law and regulation.
- The Team provide assessment and care management services, advice, and
guidance, information and service provision to and for adults with a learning disability
and their family or unpaid carers.
- Under the direction of the Head of Service, the Team Manager will provide
professional leadership, advice, support and supervision to social care staff within the
LDAS team. They will participate with colleagues across the service in the sharing
and development of policy and evidence-based practice.
- To take a key leadership role within the adult care operational service, to ensure
that performance and quality improves and that resources are appropriately
allocated within a risk management framework.
- To represent the Council with customers, the Wiltshire public and partner
organisations so as to raise the reputation of the Council and promote the
interests of the county and its people. The delivery of adult care is a high profile
public service provided by the Council in partnership with the local NHS though
contractual and partnership agreement, the Voluntary & Community sector and
user-led organisations. The future way of working requires a major shift in the
way we undertake business in partnership with NHS and VCS Stakeholders -
this role will help to lead and shape how we do this.
- Understand and deliver on departmental priorities for high quality services aiming
for excellent results in key performance indicators, and deliver continuous service
improvement for the benefit of our customers, carers and the Council
- Monitoring of performance and activity through our MABLE performance system,
ensuring the completion of work in a timely manner, in line with legal and councilrequirements, including the Care Act 2014, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the
Equalities Act 2010.
- Develop team plans, Well-being Risk assessments, Team Risk assessments and
Project work, in addition to a Departmental service plan
- Chair Best Interest meetings, and be accountable decision maker, responsible to
court judges for action planning and risk
- Responsible for managing and reporting on a LDAS budget of approximately
£52,000 000
- Manage and be accountable for the work of individuals and the team to ensure that
actions meet all legislative and regulatory requirements as determined by the
national agenda and legislation. Be responsible for managing and monitoring
change within the team, promoting good morale whist ensuring all colleagues are
adequately supported
- To have a strategic view, alongside the Head of Service in relation to service
development countywide in partnership with commissioning colleagues, other
departments within the council, Agencies and the Voluntary sector. Evaluate the
current service and plan and implement change programmes that move services
forward in line with National and local priorities including closer integration with the
NHS service.
- Implementation of the recommendations of the Care Act 2014, Learning Disabilities
and Autism Programme board and building the right support processes.
- Take responsibility for the role of Investigating Manager within the Policy &
Procedure for the safeguarding adults document which involves leading an
immediate response, together with short and longer term interventions and coordination in crisis situations.
- Chairing Early Strategy meetings, Adult Protection Conferences and Reviews.
- Identify where actions fall outside of the LDAS remit and apply to the Court of
Protection for an order to be made by a judge to ensure protective actions follow.
- Prepare and compile reports for presentation to the Court of Protection.
- To be responsible for Health and Safety within the team.
- The key challenge for the job is:
- To ensure the highest levels of public satisfaction for the service, to continue to
transform the service to meet the aspirations of customers and in accordance with
the requirements of the law and external regulation. The reputation of the Council is
largely determined by the effectiveness of this service.
- Co-ordinate and manage a countywide Learning Disabilities and Autism Service LDAS ensuring an efficient and effective community service in line with local,
Council and National objectives. This will cover a population of approximately 471,000
people Census 2011with an active customer base of 1,200 of the most complex, vulnerable people who currently receive a service within the council.
- Manage the risk involved with the customer group, and the staff working with them, to
ensure services are delivered appropriately and in a safe manner.
- Customers have complex needs and are often volatile, placing the staff, carers and
the public in high risk situations. There are an increasing number of forensic cases
who pose a public protection risk.
- The post holder is the named administrator for court orders and is legally accountable
to the court judge for managing the risk to the public.
- The post holder is accountable for up to 20 Wiltshire council staff and a further
number of contracted temporary workers within the locality team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
- The post holder is responsible to the Head of Service - Operations, and will be
accountable for the day to day operational leadership and management of the LDAS
team across Wiltshire.
- The Learning Disabilities and autism Leadership Team ensures that the specialist
health and social care operational service is delivered to the highest standards as
determined by law and regulation.
- The Team provide assessment and care management services, advice, and
guidance, information and service provision to and for adults with a learning disability
and their family or unpaid carers.
- Under the direction of the Head of Service, the Team Manager will provide
professional leadership, advice, support and supervision to social care staff within the
LDAS team. They will participate with colleagues across the service in the sharing
and development of policy and evidence-based practice.
- To take a key leadership role within the adult care operational service, to ensure
that performance and quality improves and that resources are appropriately
allocated within a risk management framework.
- To represent the Council with customers, the Wiltshire public and partner
organisations so as to raise the reputation of the Council and promote the
interests of the county and its people. The delivery of adult care is a high profile
public service provided by the Council in partnership with the local NHS though
contractual and partnership agreement, the Voluntary & Community sector and
user-led organisations. The future way of working requires a major shift in the
way we undertake business in partnership with NHS and VCS Stakeholders -
this role will help to lead and shape how we do this.
- Understand and deliver on departmental priorities for high quality services aiming
for excellent results in key performance indicators, and deliver continuous service
improvement for the benefit of our customers, carers and the Council
- Monitoring of performance and activity through our MABLE performance system,
ensuring the completion of work in a timely manner, in line with legal and councilrequirements, including the Care Act 2014, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the
Equalities Act 2010.
- Develop team plans, Well-being Risk assessments, Team Risk assessments and
Project work, in addition to a Departmental service plan
- Chair Best Interest meetings, and be accountable decision maker, responsible to
court judges for action planning and risk
- Responsible for managing and reporting on a LDAS budget of approximately
£52,000 000
- Manage and be accountable for the work of individuals and the team to ensure that
actions meet all legislative and regulatory requirements as determined by the
national agenda and legislation. Be responsible for managing and monitoring
change within the team, promoting good morale whist ensuring all colleagues are
adequately supported
- To have a strategic view, alongside the Head of Service in relation to service
development countywide in partnership with commissioning colleagues, other
departments within the council, Agencies and the Voluntary sector. Evaluate the
current service and plan and implement change programmes that move services
forward in line with National and local priorities including closer integration with the
NHS service.
- Implementation of the recommendations of the Care Act 2014, Learning Disabilities
and Autism Programme board and building the right support processes.
- Take responsibility for the role of Investigating Manager within the Policy &
Procedure for the safeguarding adults document which involves leading an
immediate response, together with short and longer term interventions and coordination in crisis situations.
- Chairing Early Strategy meetings, Adult Protection Conferences and Reviews.
- Identify where actions fall outside of the LDAS remit and apply to the Court of
Protection for an order to be made by a judge to ensure protective actions follow.
- Prepare and compile reports for presentation to the Court of Protection.
- To be responsible for Health and Safety within the team.
- The key challenge for the job is:
- To ensure the highest levels of public satisfaction for the service, to continue to
transform the service to meet the aspirations of customers and in accordance with
the requirements of the law and external regulation. The reputation of the Council is
largely determined by the effectiveness of this service.
- Co-ordinate and manage a countywide Learning Disabilities and Autism Service LDAS ensuring an efficient and effective community service in line with local,
Council and National objectives. This will cover a population of approximately 471,000
people Census 2011with an active customer base of 1,200 of the most complex, vulnerable people who currently receive a service within the council.
- Manage the risk involved with the customer group, and the staff working with them, to
ensure services are delivered appropriately and in a safe manner.
- Customers have complex needs and are often volatile, placing the staff, carers and
the public in high risk situations. There are an increasing number of forensic cases
who pose a public protection risk.
- The post holder is the named administrator for court orders and is legally accountable
to the court judge for managing the risk to the public.
- The post holder is accountable for up to 20 Wiltshire council staff and a further
number of contracted temporary workers within the locality team.
Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
