Team Manager

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO7 (£61476 – £64839)
Work location: 48 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TY
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: Sunday, 29th November 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 7th December 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

You will lead the day-to-day work of a team, creating a supportive environment where staff can exercise sound professional judgement and deliver high standards. Working with colleagues across the Front Door and wider services, you will support clear handovers, effective prioritisation and timely responses to changing needs and risks.

• Manage workloads, supervision, staff development and performance, promoting reflective and strengths-based practice.
• Ensure assessments, care management and reviews within the team’s remit meet statutory requirements and agreed standards.
• Provide oversight of complex decisions and risk, ensuring safeguarding concerns are addressed through the appropriate pathways.
• Ensure carers are involved and their assessment and support needs receive appropriate priority.
• Monitor delegated staffing, operational and care purchasing budgets, maintaining accurate records and using performance information and complaints learning to improve practice.

About the team

You will join a passionate and collaborative Adult Social Care service committed to delivering innovative, strengths-based support that enables residents to live independently and safely. The team works in partnership with health professionals, community organisations and carers to provide seamless support across a range of adult social care pathways. We are committed to continuous improvement, professional development and maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding, practice and performance. As a Team Manager, you will have the opportunity to develop and motivate a skilled workforce while helping to shape and improve services for local residents.

About you

You will be a qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration and significant experience of adult services, including within a local authority. You will bring experience of complex decision-making, risk management and working within a statutory framework, alongside evidence of supporting, supervising or inducting others.

We are looking for someone who can motivate a team, manage competing priorities and build constructive relationships with residents, carers and professionals. A clear understanding of care management, relevant legislation and anti-discriminatory practice is essential. A management qualification or equivalent is desirable.

If you enjoy developing people and improving practice in a fast-paced service, this is an opportunity to make a visible difference.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk