Team Manager - Feltham Locality

LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in London is seeking a Team Manager for the Adult Social Care Feltham Locality Team. The role involves managing social workers, overseeing safeguarding inquiries, and ensuring high service standards to support residents with diverse needs. The ideal candidate will have a social work degree, be registered with Social Work England, and possess at least two years of experience. The role requires strong leadership and communication skills, with a commitment to enhancing service delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a related role.
• Registered with Social Work England.
• Ability to communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Supervise staff, ensuring high performance standards.
• Lead on safeguarding enquiries as Safeguarding Adults Manager.
• Collaborate with various teams to ensure comprehensive support.

Skills

Communication

Staff management

Strength-based approach

Collaborative leadership

Education

Social work degree or equivalent

Tools

DBS check

Job description

About us at Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are steppingup for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Adult Social Care Feltham Locality Team as a Team Manager. The Feltham Locality Team is one of 4 Locality Teams within Adult Social Services. The Locality Teams support adults with physical and/or sensory impairment, dementia, low level mental health where their diagnosis is not the primary need for support, and people with substance misuse who are not able to manage to care for themselves in the community without social care intervention.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

In the Feltham Locality team youwill support Social Workers and Social Work Assistants in their role; providing monthly supervision, quality assuring assessments, approving funding requests, managing complex duty enquiries, overseeing multifaceted cases with health colleagues, attending meetings with GP practices and the ICB. We have regular Joint provider and contracts meetings. As team manager you will be generally overseeing the work within the team to ensure that the best possible service is provided to our residents and that performance targets are adhered to. In Hounslow we strive to improve services in our communities, listening, having a focus on preventative services in Hounslow, looking to build resilience in communities and develop a stronger community for our residents.

Work also involves working jointly with Occupational therapy, community solutions, Housing and other parts of the Council to ensure a holistic approach in providing the right care and support at the right time. As a team manager you will also oversee the performance of the team, the team budget, training needs of staff and hold regular team meetings.

A key part of the role is acting as the Safeguarding Adults Manager, leading on safeguarding enquiries to ensure the safety of our residents whilst balancing risk and making safeguarding personal.

• You will be supported by a strong management team. The 4 localities work together covering the management duty rota and often provide support across the teams as required. You will be line managed by the Service Manager and will receive regular monthly supervision.
• As the team manager you will be expected to work from the office or a place within the Borough a minimum of 2 days per week, which includes the duty days.

About You

As the Team Manager you will require a social work degree or the equivalent and be registered with Social Work England. A full DBS is also required for the role. All applicants must have a minimum of 2 years’ experience and a wiliness to learn and develop practice.

Key Responsibilities

You will have a crucial role in delivering excellent outcomes for our residents and keeping them safe. You will have close management over Safeguarding Enquiries and act as the Safeguarding Adults Manager in section 42 safeguarding enquiries.

1. You must have a good understanding of preventative work, enabling staff to employ a strength-based approach to their work and intervention with residents.
2. You will supervise staff, ensuring high performance standards in the team and encourage staff development.
3. You will demonstrate a collaborative leadership style and work with others to encourage self-development and resilience to social work intervention.

We are looking for

• A ‘people person’ with the ability to communicate key messages effectively
• Resident focused approach with a helpful and cooperative attitude
• Be able to manage and develop staff
• Be able to meet deadlines.
• In a world of change, with ever increasing demands on resources, to be open to new ways of working and exploring “the art of the possible”.
• Enhanced DBS check is required.

If the points above resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

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Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing : 19th January 2026.