Team Manager

8 hours ago

AshtonunderLyne, United Kingdom Tameside Council Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade J. Scale 40 - £48,474 to Scale 43 - £51,515 with a professional bar at Scale 41 - £49,498**

Hours Per Week: 36 (flexible working options are welcome)

Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

Assessment Date: Friday, 25th October 2024

The Role

Children’s Services in Tameside are on an improvement journey and are looking for a committed and enthusiastic Team Manager to join us in one of our Duty and Assessment Teams. This is an exciting time to join Tameside, and you will be part of a service that is highly committed, welcoming, and supportive. We are continuing to transform our approach to how we deliver services to support children and families having adopted a trauma informed strength and relationship based approach as our practice framework.

As a Team Manager you will offer a high level of support and challenge to your social workers and inspire your teams to do their very best for Tameside children. You will be responsible for a team providing assessment, planning and intervention services to children in need of a statutory assessment.

With fantastic leadership skills and attributes, you will ensure your team members are well supported and equipped to succeed.

We firmly believe that all children in Tameside deserve the best start in life, and we are looking for the right people to help make this happen.

About you

We expect you to have extensive frontline experience as well as a solid track record of managing and developing a team. Building positive relationships is important not just with the children, young people and families we work with but also with colleagues and external partner agencies.

We are looking for social work professional with considerable experience of working with children and their families in a statutory social care environment, specifically managing and supporting social workers and ASYEs, and a wealth of experience supervising complex caseloads on a busy team.

Why work for us?

  • Supportive teams and a great, friendly working environment
  • Flexible working opportunities
  • Social work teams centrally located together
  • A high standard of professional supervision and a focus on supporting professional development
  • Manageable caseloads to enable reflective practice

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information or informal discussion please contact Daniel Murphy, Service Unit Manager on daniel.murphy@tameside.gov.uk


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

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

** 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:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

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.

Reference Number: DPT349

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