Hospital Team Manager (ARCH team - active, recovery, community, home)
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 August 2025 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK2 7JE |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75718513 |
Summary
Hospital Team Manager (ARCH team - active, recovery, community, home)
MB3 (£49,764 - £56,361)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Stepping Hill hospital/Regent House and our bed bases. Working from home one day per week.
Application Deadline: 5 August 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 6 August 2025
Interview Date: 7 & 8 August 2025
Interview Type: In person
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Your Role
We are excited to offer this fantastic opportunity to join our Stockport hospital discharge team
Stockport (SMBC) require a strong and dynamic team manager to work within ARCH, our hospital discharge team, at Stepping Hill Hospital.
About You
The manager is required to have a minimum of 3 years’ experience.
We have a strong emphasis on integrated working and pride ourselves in working alongside our health partners to ensure a strength-based patient journey.
Manager would need to have thorough knowledge around all aspects of legislation, (Care Act, safeguarding, MCA, BIM etc), managing and supervising social workers, and unqualified staff to support with discharges from hospital, combination of all pathway work. Manager will be based in Stepping Hill hospital and Regent House, Stockport. Experience is required of managing a large number of staff including social workers, ASYE and social work apprentices.
Working hours are 8:30am-5pm working within a busy environment, ensuring flow and the support of staff to deliver safe and timely discharges.
Experience in working with several partners, including ICB, Health and third-party sector.
The candidate needs to be reliable, strength based, autonomous, flexible and dynamic, and able to perform under a pressured environment.
Experience of supervising social workers, attending and chairing safeguarding meetings, Court of Protection work and multi-disciplinary teams and all other professional meetings.
About Us
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact Hayley Hilgart 07356 193195 or Lilla Sutton on 07857966587
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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