West Assessment Team Manager (Adults)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO7
Salary: £57,663 – £60,819 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Monday 21st April 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing Monday 28th April 2025

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

We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate Team Manager who wants to make a difference to people’s lives in Haringey.

The key priorities for the roles are:
To manage, motivate and develop a team of staff to lead and support the successful implementation of our strength-based approach to all statutory duties under the Care Act, so that performance standards and outcomes are met in ways that demonstrate Haringey Values.
You will be expected to participate in management cover arrangements within the locality and across the other localities as required to meet service needs and to deputise for the Service manager, when required.
You will work with the other Team managers and service manager to ensure the new locality model is embedded and all the policies, procedures are implemented and effective.

About You

The post holder will need to show an ability to analyse relevant information and make independent professional decisions, have experience of managing staff at a relevant professional level. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate legal literacy and evidence good communication skills using various methods.
Applicants must be a qualified Social Worker. You should have a developed professional understanding and applied knowledge of the Care Act, Mental Capacity Act principles, as well as other relevant legislation.

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 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