Adult's Social Care, Assistive Technology Manager, North London

Adult's Social Care, Assistive Technology Manager, North London

Pay rate: £39.39 per hour

Contract role: Telecare Services

We are recruiting for an experienced Telecare Services Team Manager in the North London area. You will need to have experience managing a team in a similar Local Authority environment.

Key responsibilities

• Our aspiration is to create a service which mainstreams Assistive Technology and encourages our practitioners to consider it as part of the 'first offer', supporting Islington residents to live more independent lives within their own homes.
• The core vision of the Assistive Technology Business Manager will be to lead the whole team to deliver an early intervention and prevention offer which puts service users at the centre of every step of the journey, from referral through to installation, monitoring and response.
• The service model is a home based assessment and installation in one visit (co ordinated with social care, and where appropriate, health practitioners), in order to observe issues of concern in the home that may pose risks which were not identified as part of the original referral.
• The aim of the service is to maximise the choice and control for the service user and ensure that care practitioners remain responsible for their professional social care assessment of risk and specifying the desired outcome.
• The Assistive Technology Business Manager will be integral in managing and supporting the team to deliver a seamless service, whilst ensuring that support and guidance is available to their team to enable Islington residents to live more independent lives.

Assistive Technology Business Manager

• The Assistive Technology Business Manager is responsible for the overall day to day management of the Assistive Technology Team, including operational management and scrutiny of all aspects of the team's work including out of hours duties and direct line management of 4 Team Leaders and the Technology Coordinator.
• They will build strong working relationships with colleagues, Adult Social Care, service referrers and health practitioners to gain their full involvement in all stages of service delivery using strong interpersonal skills to negotiate and influence priorities and also to resolve conflicts where necessary.
• Undertake statistical analysis of all aspects of the service, ensuring that action is identified and taken as necessary to ensure performance meets agreed targets and stakeholders and residents remain satisfied with the service.
• Ensure all Assistive Technology staff are fully trained and familiar with each item of equipment, organising and incorporating appropriate briefing and training sessions to undertake full installation and maintenance of equipment.
• Undertake regular service user reviews, working with colleagues in health and social care to agree and monitor appropriate attempts to contact relevant individuals to gain access (no contact) or failed visits (no access) following agreed access times.

Please contact Graham Leatham on or email for more information.

This is an agency post and we can offer you: a dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK; an easy registration process (all done online); referral schemes and incentives; ongoing compliance managed for you; prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.