Team Manager (Assessment Team)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO7
Salary: £59,511 – £62,766 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Working hours: Full time, 36 hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 10th May 2026
Expected Interview Date: Week commencing 26th May 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

As Adult Assessment Team Manager, you will lead a vital front door service within Adult Social Care, ensuring adults with care and support needs receive timely, lawful and high quality assessments and interventions. This is a pivotal operational leadership role, combining strong people management with professional oversight and strategic thinking.

You will be responsible for the day to day delivery of Care Act assessments, safeguarding responses, hospital discharges and short term interventions, ensuring practice is strengths based, person centred and outcome focused. With oversight of complex cases you will ensure defensible decision making, effective risk management and compliance with legislation and local policy.

Working closely with health colleagues, housing services, voluntary sector partners and internal council teams, you will play a key role in maintaining safe discharge pathways, preventing escalation of need and supporting residents to live as independently as possible. You will also contribute to service development, quality assurance and continuous improvement within a learning organisation that values reflection and innovation.

About the Team

Haringey’s Adult Social Care Assessment Service is a dynamic, multi disciplinary service at the heart of our statutory responsibilities. The team brings together Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Assessment Officers and support staff who are passionate about making a meaningful difference in residents’ lives.

We work collaboratively across professions and agencies to deliver timely, proportionate and creative responses – often in complex and fast paced situations. Shared learning and professional curiosity are embedded within the team culture, creating an environment where staff are supported to do their best work.

About You

You will be an experienced, values led adult social care professional with strong leadership capability and a commitment to high quality, lawful and compassionate practice. You bring confidence, resilience and professional curiosity to your work, supporting teams to deliver excellent outcomes for residents while maintaining robust governance and accountability.

You will have: 
•    Qualified Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW or equivalent) with current Social Work England registration
•    Significant experience working within statutory adult social care, ideally within a local authority setting
•    Proven experience of managing and developing multi disciplinary teams, including supervision, performance management and staff development
•    Strong working knowledge of adult social care legislation, including the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding adults framework and related statutory guidance
•    Confidence in overseeing complex, high risk and safeguarding cases, ensuring defensible decision making and effective risk management
•    Experience of front door services, including assessments, hospital discharge pathways and short term interventions
•    Experience of quality assurance activity, including case audits, performance monitoring and service improvement

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 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 end 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 you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk