Children and Families
Deputy Team Manager (Adolescent Support Team)
Ref: 001225
Contract: Fixed Term (12 months)
Salary: £39,152 £42,839 per annum (Grade 7)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Location: Spindles
Closing Date: Sunday 1st February 2026
Interview Date: TBC.
Role Overview:
Working within Oldham’s Adolescent Support team you will lead a family work team focused on adolescents and their families, ensuring high-quality, preventative interventions that reduce escalation to statutory services. The role involves supervising staff, coordinating service delivery, and promoting positive outcomes for young people and their families.
Key Responsibilities:
* To lead the service through effective supervision and identification of priorities to undertake direct work with children, young people, their families, schools/settings and health partners.
* To support the Team Manager in ensuring the quality and timeliness of the team’s work, including responsiveness of service delivery, standards of case recording, and in particular meeting deadlines and standards for statutory and court directed work
* To manage and motivate members of the team supervising casework and providing support and challenge in order to develop practice and achieve positive outcomes for children and families.
* To build strong relationships with schools, health services, youth justice, voluntary agencies and RISE to ensure the appropriate delivery of family support for adolescents and their families.
* To contribute to effective team and practice development ensuring staff have the skills, abilities and knowledge required to meet the developing service needs.
Key Requirements:
To succeed in this role, you will be able to:
* Experience of working within a multi-agency environment and building and sustaining working relationships across a range of services and partners.
* Strong organisation skills, with ability to effectively prioritise and manage own caseloads as well as being able to support other staff in managing their own caseloads.
* Ability to analyse service data in order to assess performance and inform service improvement.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Us:
We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:
A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.
We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.
Our Values and Behaviours:
By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.
We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:
* Work with a resident focus
* Support local leaders
* Committed to the borough
* Delivery high performance
* Take ownership and drive change
You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page
Our Benefits Package:
At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:
* 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
* The option to purchase additional annual leave.
* An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
* Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active .
* Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
* Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
* Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
* Staff recognition and celebration events.
* Peer support groups
Inclusive Recruitment:
We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.
If you’re an applicant with disabilities, aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme .
Data and Privacy:
For details of how we use your data please see our privacy notice .
Important Information:
Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.
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