Team Manager - Community Wellbeing Teams – Hospital Social Care Team
Dewsbury, Wakefield, UK (On-site)
£51K/yr – £53K/yrFull time
Posted 2 months ago
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Job Description
We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
Organisation
Kirklees
Directorate
Adults & Health
Service Area
Adults Social Care Operation
Hours
37
Number of Jobs
1
Location(s)
Dewsbury and surrounding areas
Position type
Permanent
Grade
Grade 14
Salary
£51,356 - £53,460
Advert Wording
The Adult Social Care Teams support adults to maintain their health and wellbeing, and maximise independence, choice and control.
The Hospital Social Care team is located in Dewsbury District Hospital and supports adults with complex health and social care needs. The team provides assessments, support packages and early reviews to Kirklees residents that have been admitted to hospital to facilitate timely discharge.
The Role
As a Team Manager, you will lead and manage a team of staff including qualified Social Workers. Hospital discharge is a fast-paced environment, and the team works to clearly defined targets and deadlines. Consequently, you will play a key role in ensuring the timely completion of assessments and effective discharge planning. This will also involve you developing positive, supportive relationships with our partner agencies, including the acute hospital trust.
You will also be responsible for monitoring your team’s budget and ensuring that the council is getting best value for care packages and placements.
To support you in your role, there are 2 Deputy Team Managers, who also provide the majority of supervision to the frontline staff.
Change management skills are vital to ensure that changes are embraced positively by your team, whilst fostering a creative ethos to guarantee vulnerable adults are supported with care that is individual to them. You will support your team to adopt enabling approaches and appropriate levels of intervention keeping them to a minimum where required to facilitate individuals independence and positive risk taking as far as possible.
As well as having regular supervision from your Line Manager, you will also have an annual appraisal, as well as a full induction plan when you commence in post.
As part of our approach to a healthy work-life balance, there is a range of flexible work patterns available. Our special leave provisions and family friendly policies combined with flexible ways of working across the council aim to both improve work life balance and service delivery.
You will be expected to participate on the managers on call rota. The commitment to this is approximately 1 Saturday every 9 weeks.
You must hold a recognised social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.
Benefits
Our employees are at the very heart of the services we provide to the community, to help us achieve our ambitions, we want the best possible team. In return, we will make sure you are rewarded with a great range of to support you in and out of work.
At interview, you will be expected to demonstrate your ability to lead and manage a team, including providing supervision and controlling budgets and resources. You should have extensive experience as a social worker in an adult social care setting, and ideally have experience at deputy or team manager level.
Interviews to take place on Monday 6th July 2026.
Gayle Atha is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.
This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level, please refer to the Job Description/Profile. A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email:or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We encourage you to read our
Closing date
28 June 2026, 11:55 PM
Important Information
Organisation
Kirklees
Directorate
Adults & Health
Service Area
Adults Social Care Operation
Hours
37
Number of Jobs
1
Location(s)
Dewsbury and surrounding areas
Position type
Permanent
Grade
Grade 14
Salary
£51,356 - £53,460
Advert Wording
The Adult Social Care Teams support adults to maintain their health and wellbeing, and maximise independence, choice and control.
The Hospital Social Care team is located in Dewsbury District Hospital and supports adults with complex health and social care needs. The team provides assessments, support packages and early reviews to Kirklees residents that have been admitted to hospital to facilitate timely discharge.
The Role
As a Team Manager, you will lead and manage a team of staff including qualified Social Workers. Hospital discharge is a fast-paced environment, and the team works to clearly defined targets and deadlines. Consequently, you will play a key role in ensuring the timely completion of assessments and effective discharge planning. This will also involve you developing positive, supportive relationships with our partner agencies, including the acute hospital trust.
You will also be responsible for monitoring your team’s budget and ensuring that the council is getting best value for care packages and placements.
To support you in your role, there are 2 Deputy Team Managers, who also provide the majority of supervision to the frontline staff.
Change management skills are vital to ensure that changes are embraced positively by your team, whilst fostering a creative ethos to guarantee vulnerable adults are supported with care that is individual to them. You will support your team to adopt enabling approaches and appropriate levels of intervention keeping them to a minimum where required to facilitate individuals independence and positive risk taking as far as possible.
As well as having regular supervision from your Line Manager, you will also have an annual appraisal, as well as a full induction plan when you commence in post.
As part of our approach to a healthy work-life balance, there is a range of flexible work patterns available. Our special leave provisions and family friendly policies combined with flexible ways of working across the council aim to both improve work life balance and service delivery.
You will be expected to participate on the managers on call rota. The commitment to this is approximately 1 Saturday every 9 weeks.
You must hold a recognised social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.
Benefits
Our employees are at the very heart of the services we provide to the community, to help us achieve our ambitions, we want the best possible team. In return, we will make sure you are rewarded with a great range of to support you in and out of work.
At interview, you will be expected to demonstrate your ability to lead and manage a team, including providing supervision and controlling budgets and resources. You should have extensive experience as a social worker in an adult social care setting, and ideally have experience at deputy or team manager level.
Interviews to take place on Monday 6th July 2026.
Gayle Atha is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.
This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level, please refer to the Job Description/Profile. A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email:or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We encourage you to read our
Closing date
28 June 2026, 11:55 PM
Important Information
Kirklees Council
We want the best possible candidates to apply for jobs with Kirklees Council. To do this we widely advertise our vacancies and offer a modern, fair recruitment procedure.We strongly believe that Kirklees Council is a good employer, providing excellent terms and conditions to our employees. All we ask in return is that you give us your best in helping us provide high quality services to people who live or work in the area, or who come to visit the district.We are a metropolitan single tier authority, the 13th biggest local authority in the UK in terms of population. We have an elected Leader and Cabinet structure, and a very talented and dedicated workforce across five directorates:Children and Young PeoplePlaceResourcesCommunities, Transformation and ChangeCommissioning, Public Health and Adult Social Care
