Assistant Team Manager, Central 3 Team Localities
Salary Scale: Grade 9 SCP 37 £46, 731 – SCP 41 £50.788 per annum plus Essential Car User Allowance £1239 per annum plus 2% Recruitment and Retention Allowance paid monthly
Full Time/Permanent
Interview date by 12th September 2025
This is your opportunity to join our ‘Outstanding’ Company and make a difference!
We are proud that Together for Children Sunderland is rated‘outstanding’ in a judgement by Ofsted in 2021, and have maintained the outstanding rating in 2025, in recognition of the stability of our very well supported and talented workforce who deliver an ongoing commitment to improving children’s outcomes. Join us and help us in continuing our outstanding journey!
Together for Children are looking to recruit a suitably experienced and skilled Assistant Team Manager who has the passion and drive to ensure that children and young people in Sunderland achieve the best outcomes and receive high quality services. The post primarily focuses on supporting the Team Manager with the quality assurance, allocation and oversight of work within the team and provides an excellent opportunity to develop management skills and focus on service development.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of our established locality safeguarding teams. Our work consists of supporting children/young people and their families who are identified as Child in Need under s17 of the Children Act 1989 and Child Protection under s47of the Children Act 1989 and Cared for Children under s20, s31 and s38 of the Children Act 1989. Within each framework of intervention, we have clear procedures regarding visiting children and convening appropriate meetings. This includes completing assessments to enable child focused SMART plans to be implemented, completing direct work with children and young people, completing reports for Child Protection Conferences, Cared for Child reviews and court directed assessments.
You will have an established track record in safeguarding and multi-agency working whilst also having knowledge and understanding of legislation which underpins social work practice.
You will have the skills and expertise to motivate and support Social Workers, setting high standards and enabling excellent practice. Together for Children prides itself on a visible senior management team who promote a nurturing, learning environment with high support and high challenge.
Visa sponsorship: We welcome applications from all nationalities; however, successful candidates must, by the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK.
If you would like to have an informal discussion about this post please contactpeoplesupport@togetherforchildren.org.uk
Together for Children is committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse local communities that we support across Sunderland. We’re striving to build an inclusive workplace culture where all employees feel valued and diversity is celebrated by everyone
As part of this commitment, we work collaboratively with our established employee networks:
Menopause Network
Accessibility Network
LGBTQ+ Network
Racial Equality Network
Armed Forces Network
We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race, and background.
If you have a disability please do reach out to our Accessibility Network Chair to hear how we can support you during the recruitment process and if you are successful, in the workplaceEDI@togetherforchildren.org.uk
For further information on Together for Children, please take a look at our website:
https://www.togetherforchildren.org.uk
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Together for Children have a fostering friendly People policy for all foster carers in their employment (regardless of their fostering service). This includes offering foster carers flexible working and paid time off for training and settling a new child into their home.
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