Adults Assistant Team Manager - Runnymede
| Posting date: | 22 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £52,942 to £57,125 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 August 2025 |
| Location: | Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2AH |
| Company: | Surrey County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SCC/TP/287930/3520_1753180144 |
Summary
This role has a starting salary of £52,942 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.
We are excited to be hiring an Assistant Team Manager to join our fantastic Runnymede Locality team. The team is currently based in Addlestone and is close to local amenities and shops. However, there is a planned move to the Weybridge Community Hub, at Weybridge Library, on the high street and in the heart of this bustling Surrey town.
Rewards and Benefits
- 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
About the Team
Working in the Runnymede Locality Team means being part of a close-knit, supportive, and friendly team. Colleagues are always ready to lend a hand, share knowledge, and provide encouragement, creating a positive and collaborative atmosphere.
The team is dedicated to the professional development of all its members, offering ample opportunities through the Surrey County Council training offer, mentorship, and career advancement, ensuring that everyone has the chance to thrive and reach their full potential. Additionally, being part of the Runnymede Locality Team means making a real difference in the lives of adults in the community. The role is both challenging and rewarding, as team members provide a statutory social work service to the community of Runnymede, aiming to improve the quality of life for those they support.
Within Surrey County Council there is also the established Adult Social Care Academy, which ensures excellence in our learning and development offer to all staff.
About the Role
As an Assistant Team Manager, you will support the day-to-day running of a busy, dynamic team, effectively prioritising daily challenges and expectations. You will support the Team Manager to deliver high quality, personalised adult social care. Additionally, a key accountability of the role is developing staff practice ensuring the team you work within is the best it can be.
We understand the challenges of day-to-day social work and have put tools in place to improve your work/life balance and make daily tasks more manageable. We have created an environment to put you in the best place to do your work in a more agile way, working from home, office, or other locations as appropriate. For this role you would be expected to be in the office for 40% of the working week.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:
- That you hold a professional social work, occupational therapy, nursing or other relevant allied health qualification, have completed any post qualification practice or training requirements and have current professional registration with their relevant registration authority.
- Your significant post-qualification experience, including experience in a social care setting, and your excellent understanding of the social care and health agendas.
- Applied knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation, including the Mental Capacity Act and the NHS Continuing Healthcare National Framework.
- Effective knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults' procedures
- Your excellent communication skills that enable you to successfully manage a team and develop effective relationships, both internal and external, such as providing effective professional supervision to less experienced colleagues or inter-agency partnership working.
- Your strong commitment to achieving positive, strengths-based outcomes that promote maximum community inclusion and personal choice and control.
Surrey has both urban and rural areas and locality based Assistant Team Managers will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK and access to a 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.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 3rd August 2025 with interviews planned for 19th and 20th August 2025.
We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.
Local Government Reorganisation
Surrey County Council is preparing for Local Government Reorganisation which will allow us to implement the Government led policy of devolution, which is all about giving more powers to local areas.
Currently, Surrey has a two-tier council system, with 11 district and borough councils and a county council, all responsible for different services. All these councils will be reorganised into a smaller number of new unitary councils which will come into effect in April 2027. At this point, this role will be transferred, with all existing terms and conditions intact into one of the new unitary councils.
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