Assistant Team Leader (Mental health)

inploi; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government council in Stockport is seeking an experienced Assistant Team Leader for its mental health service, offering a key role in promoting well-being among adults and providing leadership to a busy social work team. This hybrid role involves managing and supporting social workers, ensuring quality care for individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions. Candidates should be qualified social workers committed to staff development and achieving positive outcomes for the community.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive work culture

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered social worker with Social Work England.
• Experience supervising social workers within mental health.
• Passionate about supporting social workers.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and maintain a strength-based culture.
• Supervise and support the staff team.
• Manage sickness and authorize budgets.

Skills

Team player

Time management

Problem solving

Supervising social workers

Managing high levels of risk

Education

Qualified social worker

Post qualifying qualification (AMHP/BIA)

Job description

Assistant Team Leader (Mental health)

MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356)

37 hours, Full-Time

Permanent

Hybrid: Baker Street and homeworking. Expected to be office based for duty manager and team meetings.

Application Deadline: 28 December 2025, 11:59pm

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Shortlisting Date: 29 December 2025

Interview Date: 5 January 2025

Interview Type: Face to Face at Baker Street Office.

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Your Role

The Adult social care Mental health service is looking to recruit an experienced Assistant Team lead who has experience of working with adults in line with the Care Act to promote and enhance their well-being in a busy mental health social work team.

The post holder will provide leadership at an appropriate level to establish and maintain a strength-based culture of teamwork, achievement, accountability, and outcome focused. This includes providing supervision and support to the staff team as well as contributing to the ever-developing service. This will include recruitment, managing sickness and authorising budgets.

About You

• Is a qualified and experienced social worker and is registered with Social Work England.
• Has or is committed to work towards a post qualifying qualification such as Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) or Best Interest Assessor (BIA) and significant post qualifying experience.
• Is a team player, who has experience and drive in developing and supporting newly qualified and experienced social workers to achieve the best they can.
• Has good time management and organisation skills.
• Has experience of supervising social workers within a complex mental health social work team.
• Has ambition and creativity, we are a developing service, and we are looking for individuals who can be creative and good at problem solving.
• Has the ability to understand budgets and the impacts.
• Has the experience of working with and managing high levels of risk within an area of service assessing and supporting individuals with complex needs and severe and enduring mental health.
• Is passionate about supporting social workers to meet the best outcomes for the people of Stockport.
• Has experience in recruitment, managing sickness, allocations across the service and authorising budgets.

About Us

The Adult social care mental health team is a specialist area in which we strive to ensure that individuals who experience severe and enduring mental health conditions are enabled and can meet outcomes to suit and benefit their recovery. Our team is based across the Meadows and Baker Street and cover the whole borough of Stockport and out of area when necessary under S117 of the Mental Health Act. We work within the Care Act to support individuals to lead happier and healthier lives through wellbeing and prevention agenda. We also look to ensure the safety of individuals under S42 Safeguarding under the Care Act, we do this again with the person at the centre of this, making safeguarding personal. We work collaboratively with our partner agencies, namely the community mental health teams and are committed to the council’s vision off one heart, one mind, one Stockport and work to an ethos of promoting the glorious ordinary lives of our residents.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

Contact & Legal

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Sarah Kerr on 01615130041 [e-mail] for an informal discussion about the role

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

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