Adults LDAT and Transitions Social Care Lead
Ref: 001111
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £51,356 - £52,495 per annum (Grade 10)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Based: Spindles Office, George Street, Oldham, OL1 1HD
Closing Date: Monday 3rd November 2025
Interview Dates: TBC.
Role Overview
The Team Manager to lead the Adult Learning Disability, Autism, and Transitions Team, delivering person‑centred support for adults with complex needs. The role involves operational leadership, multi‑agency collaboration, and continuous service development to ensure smooth, coordinated care pathways.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team, ensuring effective supervision, performance, and professional development.
* Coordinate complex transition planning for young people entering adult services, ensuring timely assessments and person‑centred outcomes.
* Develop and maintain strong partnerships with health, education, social care, housing, and voluntary sector agencies.
* Monitor service delivery to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, safeguarding, and best practice standards are met.
* Use data and feedback to drive continuous improvement, service planning, and resource allocation.
Key Requirements
* Proven experience in managing or leading teams within adult social care, learning disabilities, autism, transition or Adult community services.
* Strong knowledge of relevant legislation and frameworks, including the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, and transition pathways from children's to adult services.
* Excellent communication, leadership, and partnership‑building skills to work effectively across multidisciplinary and multi‑agency settings.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
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 and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer or someone who has served in the Armed Forces 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.
While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Oldham Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.
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