Overview
Assistant Team Leader (Mental Health)
Salary: MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356)
Hours: 37 hours, Full-Time
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid: Baker Street and homeworking; expected to be office based for duty manager and team meetings.
Application Deadline: 13 October 2025, 11:59pm
Shortlisting Date: 14 October 2025
Interview Date: 20 October 2025
Interview Type: Face to Face at Baker Street Office.
Note: We may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. Submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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 focus. 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
We are looking for somebody who:
* Is a qualified and experienced social worker and is registered with Social Work England.
* Has or is committed to working 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, with experience and drive in developing and supporting newly qualified and experienced social workers to achieve their best.
* 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 seek individuals who can be creative and solve problems.
* Has the ability to understand budgets and the impacts.
* Has 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 focused on enabling individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions to achieve recovery-oriented outcomes. Our team is based across the Meadows and Baker Street and covers the whole borough of Stockport, with occasional out-of-area work 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, and to safeguard under S42 where needed, keeping the person at the centre of safeguarding. We collaborate with partner agencies including community mental health teams and are committed to the council’s vision of one heart, one mind, one Stockport, 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. We value people with the right values and behaviours to help ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as a great place to work. The charter recognises our commitment to wellbeing, real living wage, staff involvement in key decisions, and fair and flexible working conditions.
Additional Information
If you would like to find out more about the role contact Sarah Kerr on 01615130041 or sarah.kerr@stockport.gov.uk 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.
Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.
Please note our commitment to improving employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria at the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme page: greater.jobs
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the About You or Supporting Statement section of your application and email recruitment@stockport.gov.uk.
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