Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Salary: £49,221 - £53,826 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: Monday – Friday (37 hours per week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 20th April 2026
The Mental Health Locality and Reablement Team in Charnwood is a well‑established service with a strong, supportive team culture and robust partnerships across the community. This includes access to specialist homelessness and wellbeing services that are unique within the county.
About the Role
The Team Manager will hold overall responsibility for the team’s performance and practice. Providing direct line management to the Social Workers, Community Support workers and Community Reablement Workers in the team.
The Charnwood team supports a complex cohort of individuals who may experience challenges related to housing, substance misuse, domestic abuse, alongside severe and enduring mental ill health. This position is well suited to someone who is motivated to make a meaningful and positive impact on the lives of some of the most vulnerable people accessing our services.
Some of the duties include:
1. Ensuring staff deliver excellent outcomes for people with Care Act eligibility by implementing the department’s operating model and ways of working to deliver excellence in social care.
2. Provide technical and professional support to team members, including professional development.
3. To support ways of working for staff by continuing and building upon close working between teams and partner agencies, including NHS partners, ICBs, inpatient units, community mental health teams, and voluntary agencies.
4. Manage staffing budgets, staff performance, and service delivery to ensure efficiency, high‑quality, and legally compliant aftercare, using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity, capability and delivery.
5. Provide performance reporting and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and the Head of Service.
6. Participate in Out of Hours rota and undertake DoLs sign‑off responsibilities.
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About You
7. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience. We welcome supervisory/management qualifications or evidence of continual management development.
8. Substantial social care experience in Adult Social Care or Health organisations, and successful working with managers and staff in people and performance management, Stakeholder and relationship management.
9. Demonstrable experience in managing performance and implementing change and performance improvement programmes along with experience of business planning, prioritising competing service demands.
10. Proven experience in budget managing and in delivering significant efficiency savings
11. Theoretical, practical and procedural knowledge of social work and social care legislation policy and best practise along with skills and knowledge relevant to the service area.
12. Breadth of understanding of the range of interventions available
13. Excellent knowledge of partnership agencies in statutory, voluntary, on independent factors including understanding of partnership pressures an interdependencies relative to service area.
In addition, we also expect you to share and to delivering accessible and inclusive services which meet the needs of all of our residents. You will be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these commitments as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability. We are a .
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which may include part-time working, job sharing, term-time working, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid working, depending on the requirements of the role and the service. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below.
For more information contact:
Aiden Neaves, Strategic Service Manager
Email:
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