Assistant Team Manager

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Title: Adults Assistant Team Manager - West 2 Area

Reference: SCC/TP/287930/5944

Positions: 1

Salary: £56,439 - £60,898 per annum

Category: Qualified Social Work - Adult's

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: 36 hours per week

Posted on: 21 September 2026

Closing date: 11 October 2026

Directorate: Adults, Wellbeing & Health Partnerships

Location: West 2 Area - see advert for details

Description

We are committed to the development of our workforce. This position is only available to applicants who already work for Surrey County Council. We thank you for your interest in our roles and would encourage you to review our vacancies which are open to all.

This role has a starting salary of £56,439 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week. This is a full time position but part-time applications are also welcomed.

We have a great opportunity to join our West 2 Area team as an Assistant Team Manager. West Area 2 covers the geographical areas of Runnymede, Spelthorne and Woking and as a part of the job role you will be expected to travel and casehold across the wider area and support our duty function.

There is an expectation that 2 days per week will be spent in the office. This opportunity is open to registered Social Workers looking to develop leadership experience while remaining closely connected to frontline social work practice within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment and will involve duty oversight as well long-term complex cases.

Our Offer to You

26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service (pro-rated for part time opportunities)

Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave

A generous local government salary related pension

Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year

Paternity, adoption and dependents leave

An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing

Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping

A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents

About the Role

As an Assistant Team Manager, you will provide day-to-day operational and professional leadership, ensuring high-quality, person-centred practice that delivers positive outcomes for residents, carers and families across our duty function and area. You will oversee and quality-assure assessments, support plans and reviews, particularly where situations are complex or high risk, and offer expert guidance on legislation and best practice, including the Care Act, the Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding. The role involves reflective professional supervision, supporting staff to manage risk confidently, contributing to service improvement and deputising for the Team Manager when required. Close partnership working with health, housing and voluntary sector colleagues is essential, alongside a flexible response to both routine demands and unexpected challenges.

You will hold direct line management responsibility for a defined group of staff, providing regular supervision, performance management and appraisals, supporting professional development and addressing wellbeing, capability or conduct issues in line with organisational policies. A key part of the role is supporting newly qualified practitioners and fostering a positive, learning-focused team culture.

You will contribute to priorities such as strengthening practice quality and consistency, embedding strengths-based and outcome-focused approaches and building capability across the team. You will play a central role in establishing and developing a newly formed locality team following the redesign from three separate teams into a single, larger service. This includes supporting improvement and transformation activity, contributing to quality assurance, and helping prepare the service for ongoing organisational change, collaborative working and evolving models of care.

This role offers a genuine opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Through your leadership and professional expertise, you will directly influence practice quality, support staff to make confident and lawful decisions and help safeguard and improve outcomes for residents. Your contribution will support the Council's wider aims around prevention, partnership working, community-based support and delivering compassionate, effective services that improve lives.

Shortlisting Criteria

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:

A professional social work qualification and registration with Social Work England

Significant post-qualification experience, including experience in a social care setting, and an excellent understanding of the social care and health agendas

Applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation, including the Mental Capacity Act and NHS Continuing Healthcare Framework

Effective knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults' procedures

Excellent communication skills that enable you to successfully manage a team and develop relationships

Examples of when you have provided effective professional supervision to less experienced colleagues

A track record in inter-agency, partnership working

Strong commitment to achieving positive, strengths-based outcomes that promote maximum community inclusion, and personal choice and control

To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 3 questions:

1. Please tell us about the relevant experience or transferable skills you have that you can bring to this role?

2. Please provide examples of how you have managed multiple, competing demands effectively at work.

3. Please outline your experience of supervising others with examples of how you supported the growth and wellbeing of staff.

Surrey has both urban and rural areas and locality based social care workers will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK, access to a business insured vehicle and be willing to travel across a wide geographical area. Reasonable adjustments where needed will be made for successful applicants who have a disability or long term health condition to enable them to fulfil the requirements of the job.