Adult Social Care Mental Health Team Manager

Posting date:	12 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 March 2026
Location:	Tameside, OL7 9QG
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75785688

Summary

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Salary: Grade J SCP 40 £51,356 to SCP 43 £54,495 with a professional bar at SCP 41 £52,413**

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base Location: Wilshaw House, Ashton-under-Lyne

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

Are you an inspirational mental health leader ready to make a real difference?

We are looking for a skilled, motivated and valuesdriven Mental Health Team Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team supporting adults with mental disorders to live well, remain independent, and achieve positive outcomes within their communities.

This is a pivotal leadership role within Adult Social Care, combining professional social work leadership, strategic service development, and strong partnership working across health and care systems.

As Mental Health Team Manager, you will:

• Provide clear, inclusive and motivational leadership to a team of specialist Mental Health social work and professional staff
• Ensure the service delivers highquality, lawful and personcentred practice in line with the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights Act
• Embed a culture where lived experience, strengthsbased practice and safeguarding are at the heart of everything we do
• Drive continuous service improvement, informed by performance data, service user feedback and best practice
• Work closely with Pennine Care, local mental health hospitals and community partners to deliver integrated, coordinated responses
• Oversee performance management, workforce development, supervision and professional standards
• Contribute to budget management, service transformation and strategic planning across Adult Social Care

If you are an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP), you will also participate in the AMHP rota (minimum 12 times per year), with additional payment.

About You

You will be a confident, reflective and resilient leader with a strong commitment to ethical, personcentred practice.

You will bring:

• A recognised Social Work qualification (or Occupational Therapy qualification where relevant)
• Registration with Social Work England (or HCPC for OT roles)
• Extensive postqualification experience in adult mental health social care
• Proven experience of managing, supervising and developing professional staff
• Strong knowledge of adult social care legislation and safeguarding responsibilities
• The ability to lead through change, complexity and ambiguity, while maintaining quality and staff wellbeing
• Excellent communication, decisionmaking and partnershipworking skills

Postqualifying awards such as AMHP, BIA or Practice Educator are highly desirable.

About Us

Message from Stephanie Butterworth, Director of Adults Services at Tameside Council.

‘’ I’ve worked here for many years now and I’m proud of the work that we do together, ensuring people in our borough are living a good life.

‘‘Our vision is one which sees people living well in the place they call home, where they are supported to be a part of their local communities to live long, healthy and fulfilled lives.

‘’One way I regularly connect and listen to our workforce is through my monthly staff drop-in with our Principal Social Worker. This is an opportunity to create dedicated time for staff to share ideas, team updates and network across our services. It’s amazing to hear during sessions that they really value being part of Team Tameside and the opportunities that we bring, so we can make sure that they are part of delivering our ambition for the people we support.

‘’Working in Adult Social Care is a rewarding and fulfilling career choice, where you can really make a difference to people’s lives every day. We will support you to develop and fulfil your potential and create space for you to reflect and grow. We are dedicated to breaking barriers, so our workforce is rich with experience and understanding, always building and championing social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

People are always at the heart of everything we do, if our vision sounds like something you want to be part of, we offer a warm welcome to join us here at Team Tameside. ‘’

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel.

If you are interested and want to discuss further please contact Maria Botterill Service Unit Manager on Maria.botterill@Tameside.gov.uk

Supporting Documents

↗ Adult social care Mental Health Team Manager Job Description and Person Specification Profile

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