Are you an experienced, compassionate social work leader ready to drive meaningful change in adult mental health?
Randstad Care is partnering with Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) to seek an exceptional Social Work Manager to lead, support, and inspire their dedicated Community Mental Health Team. In this key leadership role, you will oversee multi-disciplinary practice, ensure robust governance, and promote recovery-focused, person-centred care across diverse urban and rural communities
Benefits of our brilliant rewards package include:
... - Flexible Hours: Control your work hours and choose assignments that fit your lifestyle.
- Competitive Pay Rates: We offer highly competitive remuneration for each placement.
- Professional Development: Opportunities to work across various departments, enhancing your skills and broadening your expertise.
- Free training: Keep up to date with your Continuous Professional Development.
- Pension Scheme: Contributory pension.
- Referral Bonus: Receive £300 in vouchers (subject to Ts and Cs).
- Weekly payroll: Randstad runs a twice weekly payroll, enabling you to control your finances by receiving weekly pay.
- Dedicated Support: Our team is here to assist you at every step, from onboarding through the entirety of your placement. We can even help with sourcing accommodation and travel, if required.
About the Role
- Strategic & Operational Leadership: Lead, direct, and manage the day-to-day operations of the Community Mental Health Social Work Team to ensure high-quality, outcome-focused service delivery across Renfrewshire.
- Integrated Working: Work collaboratively alongside colleagues, multidisciplinary team (MDT) members, and third-sector partners within the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) framework.
- Statutory Governance & Compliance: Oversee the statutory duties of the team under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, ensuring adherence to legislative standards and SSSC codes of practice.
- Staff Management & Development: Line-manage Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, Mental Health Officers (MHOs), and support staff. Conduct regular clinical supervision, professional appraisals, and support continuous professional development (CPD).
- Quality Assurance & Safeguarding: Lead on adult protection inquiries, risk management, and quality assurance processes to safeguard vulnerable individuals and continuously improve service delivery.
- Resource & Budget Management: Effectively manage allocated team budgets, commission appropriate care packages, and allocate resources efficiently to meet local population needs.
What We Are Looking For
- Qualified Social Worker: Degree in Social Work (DipSW, BA, or equivalent).
- Management Experience
- Professional Registration: Active registration with the SSSC (or eligible to register immediately).
This could be the perfect position in which to realise your career goals.
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Do you have some more questions regarding this or any other role?
If you are interested in discussing the position further, please contact Leah Rowley on 0131 240 0887 or email for a confidential discussion - . If you are happy to move forward with the process and are successful to be put forward for this role, a conversation can also be arranged with the Manager to discuss the details about the position further. This gives you the opportunity to ask more questions and to assess if this is the right role for you.
Being a preferred supplier to numerous local authorities and NHS trusts, we can give you access to a wide range of vacancies.
Are you thinking about a change in your career? Whether you are an existing locum or you are new to the locum market and are exploring your options, we have opportunities that are exciting, well paid and flexible.
I have over 22 years experience recruiting within the healthcare market at Randstad. If this particular role does not sound quite right for you, we have a wide selection of roles across the country that may not be advertised. We are also able to source a particular role to suit your requirements, so whether you work with children or adults in any particular speciality, please get in touch to see how we can support you!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
