Assistant Team Manager in Walsall

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Team Manager to join our Youth in Sight team, which is a multi-disciplinary team working with adolescents aged 10-18 years who present with complex needs relating to their mental health or emotional dysregulation. This will include young people with repeat hospital admissions and those that are likely to require therapeutic care without early intervention and the provision of services to them and their families to support them to remain safely within their family home.

Walsall Children’s Social Care are dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate services for children and young people. We believe in nurturing the potential of every young person, and we are seeking passionate professionals to join our multidisciplinary team in our mission to support adolescents (10-18 years old) during a crucial phase of their development.

We are looking for a dynamic and empathetic individual to join our multidisciplinary team to empower, understand and support adolescents and their families at times of need. The team adopts a holistic and coordinated approach when working with parents, the young person and the system that surrounds the family. We believe that by establishing a strengths-based approach and relational way of working with families we will build authentic relationships and secure positive outcomes.

The Youth In Sight team includes social workers, parenting support officers, systemic family therapists, youth workers and speech and language therapists who adopt a relational approach and work with a small cohort of young people, giving you the time and space to work intensively with the family and be able to make considered and balanced decisions. You will have access to the collective expertise of disciplines, enhancing your capacity to develop effective solutions and contemplate the broader context.

As an Assistant Team Manager within the team, you will lead in Group Supervisions every 4 weeks to measure success, reflect on the intervention with the family and identify any areas of concern. Team members will use a shared database to ensure information is accessible and shared with each other promptly. All team members are trained to use the 'Valuing Care Tool' to help us really understand a young person's needs and be able to measure the impact of our support and intervention.

We want every child and family in Walsall to be understood, happy and safe, and to feel a sense of belonging which will help them learn, achieve and succeed. We're applying this vision to everything we do for children, young people and families.

About you

As an Assistant Team Manager, you will have extensive post qualifying experience of working with children and their families with a varied range of needs and vulnerabilities. You will support practitioners and contribute to purposeful statutory assessments, planning and reviews, promoting participation, consultation and co-production with young people and their families.

You will jointly lead and manage part of a social work team under the direction of the Team Manager to ensure that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard and promote their welfare. You will collaborate with the wider partnership to secure support and form a holistic view of the family's circumstances, and adopt a 'Think Family' approach when considering the needs of the whole family unit.

You will promote and contribute to the development of high quality of practice and service delivery within the team. You will support and supervise frontline practitioners, and to be aware of and manage performance within the team. You will offer support to ASYE social workers, including reflective conversations, support, guidance and co-working.

As an Assistant Team Manager, you will have access to specialist training commissioned by the Practice Development Hub. You will demonstrate commitment to your own practice development and continued professional development and be registered with Social Worker England.

Why work for Walsall?

Walsall is an OFSTED rated outstanding, innovative and creative local authority, but above all our friendly supportive culture ensures practitioners have the right support to grow and develop. You are part of a challenging profession, that’s why we ensure you are never alone but instead surrounded by approachable practitioners and managers. Allowing you to spend time on what counts, direct work with children, young people and families.

Career development pathways and flexible hybrid working will make you want Walsall to be in your future! Walsall is where innovation really happens. Our Families First offering is leading the way in the transformation of regional and national approaches too, and we’re one of only ten local authorities working this way. Our multi-agency structure is already established and we’re going to continue to innovate to ensure better outcomes for children and young people.

Walsall is a truly exciting place to be where you can make a difference to every family. If you share our vision, shouldn't you be here too?

Family Service

Family networks will be placed at the heart of our practice, as we recognise the importance of engaging the wider systems around a family as early as we can so that children and young people remain living at home or with their families.

Family Help

Our family help service will align our family safeguarding model and targeted early help teams in supporting children, young people and families as soon as possible.

Child Protection

We’ve created a new role of Lead Child Protection Practitioner, and you simply won’t find that anywhere else. We’re continuing to develop our multi-agency child protection team. It’s all about developing systems and practices with partners including the police, health, and probation services to form an expert network of child protection leads and specialists.

Looking after you

We’re committed to growing and developing our own workforce. So you’ll be supported throughout your career to become skilled and confident through our learning and development offer. We also want you to achieve and maintain a healthy work-life balance and there's a range of employee benefits to suit everyone's lifestyles.

• Flexible working - there are different options depending on your role and on customer and service needs, and it includes 9-day fortnights, flexible and hybrid working.
• Clinical Supervision.
• Retention Payments post 2 years in service.
• A commitment across our service to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
• Established learning and development frameworks.

As well as a competitive salary, you can look forward to a generous pension scheme, 28 days' annual leave (pro-rata) plus 5 additional days for 5 years continuous local government service, family friendly policies, flexible and hybrid working arrangements for your life-work balance, and a progressive health and wellbeing agenda led by a dedicated team.

About the rewards

We’re committed to creating a high-quality and valued workforce where you can feel cared about and listened to. You’ll have managers available to guide you, plus access to our comprehensive practice development training. There’s also continuous professional development, opportunities for networking and collaboration, and clinical supervision that promotes your wellbeing.

Would you like to talk to a social worker about the realities of working in Walsall? Closing date for applications is 30th August 2026. Interviews will take place week commencing 7th September 2026.

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Note: Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to anytime they were overseas.

Walsall Council’s Children’s Services are the only Ofsted “Outstanding” local authority in the Black Country. During a visit in May 2025, Inspectors described Walsall Council as a place where children were at the heart of. The council’s journey of continuous improvement started in 2017 and has since transformed into a service with a clear vision, clear priorities and a clear plan, all informed by the views of our staff and children. Staff are at the core of delivering great outcomes for children and young people in Walsall, which is underpinned by our Walsall Right 4 Children vision. The latest Ofsted inspection demonstrated that staff in children’s services are proud to work for Walsall Council and feel supported to do great work.