Assistant Team Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £44,711 to Scale 39 - £48,710 with a professional bar at SCP 37 £46,731

Base Location: Wilshaw House, Wilshaw Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL7 9QG

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

Are you a dynamic, passionate, and resilient leader with a proven track record of building strong relationships across diverse stakeholders? Are you driven to make a meaningful impact in a learning-focused organization? If so, we want to hear from you!

This is your chance to join a team that values growth, collaboration, and innovation. If you're ready to bring your leadership skills to a place that truly supports continuous learning, we'd love to connect with you!

Tameside Council is entering an exciting phase as we embark on transformative changes to Adult Social Care. This is a pivotal moment to join our dynamic team and help shape the future of mental health services within our community.

As the Assistant Team Manager (ATM) within the Adult Social Care Mental Health Team, you will play a vital role in the transformation process. Working closely with the Team Manager, you will contribute to the development of a specialist team that supports adults with mental disorders and young people transitioning to adulthood.

We are seeking a highly motivated, energetic, and innovative ATM to support the growth of our Mental Health Team. This team will provide vital assessment and care management for adults with mental illness and young adults navigating the transition process.

The role will involve:

• Supporting Leadership: Assisting the Team Manager in recruiting key positions and building a team capable of handling complex cases. Your role will ensure we meet our statutory obligations under the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Autism Act, while fostering a high-performing service.
• Developing Specialist Services: Collaborating with the Team Manager to shape a specialist care model for adults with mental illness, ensuring the implementation of person-centred, legally compliant practices.
• Effective Management: Contributing to the leadership of the team, ensuring clarity of direction, maintaining a culture of change, and promoting a performance-driven, team-based environment that motivates and empowers staff.
• Practice Improvement & Safeguarding: Supporting the Team Manager in overseeing safeguarding responsibilities, promoting a continuous learning culture and ensuring that service quality meets regulatory standards.
• Collaboration & Communication: Developing a robust communication and engagement plan, building strong working relationships with service users, carers, and health colleagues to achieve positive outcomes.
• CQC Compliance: Assisting in implementing Key Lines of Enquiry to ensure compliance with CQC standards and contributing to the overall improvement of the service.
• Operational Excellence: Helping to establish and maintain a responsive duty system for emergencies, ensuring efficient service delivery at all times.

You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with internal and external partners, including voluntary organisations, to drive successful outcomes across the broader system.

About You

We are looking for a driven professional who is passionate about improving the lives of people with mental health challenges and supporting their independence. You will have:

• A Level 6 social work degree or equivalent qualification
• A strong background in Adult Social Care, with direct experience working with adults with mental illness and an understanding of transitions
• Experience in care management environments, ideally with a focus on mental health
• Proven leadership experience, particularly in managing service change and redesign
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate and develop teams.
• The capability to think strategically, set clear targets, and plan for future service needs.

If you're excited by the opportunity to lead change in a growing service and make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in creating a future where people with mental health needs receive the care and support they deserve.

About Us

Message from Stephanie Butterworth, Director of Adults Services at Tameside Council. 'I’ve worked here for many years now and I’m proud of the work that we do together, ensuring people in our borough are living a good life. Our vision is one which sees people living well in the place they call home, where they are supported to be a part of their local communities to live long, healthy and fulfilled lives.'

'One way I regularly connect and listen to our workforce is through my monthly staff drop-in with our Principal Social Worker. This is an opportunity to create dedicated time for staff to share ideas, team updates and network across our services. It’s amazing to hear during sessions that they really value being part of Team Tameside and the opportunities that we bring, so we can make sure that they are part of delivering our ambition for the people we support.'

'Working in Adult Social Care is a rewarding and fulfilling career choice, where you can really make a difference to people’s lives every day. We will support you to develop and fulfil your potential and create space for you to reflect and grow. We are dedicated to breaking barriers, so our workforce is rich with experience and understanding, always building and championing social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.'

People are always at the heart of everything we do, if our vision sounds like something you want to be part of, we offer a warm welcome to join us here at Team Tameside.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.

This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

• Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND
• Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND
• Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.