Complex Safeguarding Assistant Team Manager

Posting date:	09 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Competitive
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 April 2026
Location:	Bury, BL9 0SW
Company:	inploi
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	75791637

Summary

Location: Bury, 3 Knowsley Place
Salary: Grade 14, £48,226 - £49,282
Full-time, Permanent

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Assistant Team Manager to support our Complex Safeguarding Service, with a dedicated focus on tackling exploitation and risk outside the home. This is a pivotal management role, driving forward our commitment to protecting vulnerable children and young people from harm, including criminal, sexual, and other forms of exploitation.

This role is central to our statutory duties in safeguarding children and young people, ensuring that robust systems are in place to identify, assess, and respond to risks associated with criminal, sexual, and other forms of exploitation.

As Assistant Team Manager, you will work within a skilled multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective safeguarding practice, robust risk management, and innovative interventions. You will work closely with partners across police, health, education, and voluntary sectors to disrupt exploitation and safeguard those at risk.

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate leader who is ready to make a real difference in the lives of children affected by exploitation, abuse, and complex safeguarding concerns.

The post holder will provide support the team manager in operational leadership and management oversight of a dedicated team, ensuring effective practice, compliance with statutory guidance, and the delivery of high-quality outcomes for children and families.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the team manager to provide clear leadership and direction to the Complex Safeguarding Team, ensuring statutory responsibilities are met.
• Support the team manager to oversee the management of complex cases, ensuring timely assessments, risk management, and safeguarding interventions.
• Ensure practice is consistent with legislation, statutory guidance, and local safeguarding procedures.
• Support team manager to lead on partnership working with police, health, education, and voluntary sector colleagues to coordinate responses and disrupt exploitation.
• Support the team manager to monitor performance, quality assure practice, and report on outcomes to senior management and safeguarding boards.
• Provide supervision, support, and professional development opportunities for staff, ensuring a resilient and skilled workforce.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Substantial experience in safeguarding children and young people, with a strong understanding of exploitation.
• Proven management and/or supervisory skills within a statutory safeguarding context.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance, and best practice.
• Strong partnership working skills, with the ability to influence and coordinate multi-agency responses.
• Commitment to continuous improvement, service development, and the delivery of positive outcomes for children.

Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.

We strive to provide a supportive and dynamic work environment for our employees with a strong focus on support, training and development and health and wellbeing.

About Bury

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

• Re-imbursement of the annual £90 Social Work England registration fees (conditions apply).
• Pay increases in line with your continued professional development.
• Free parking where you work - worth £860 a year for qualified Social Workers who work from town centre locations where there is no ready access to free parking, plus car mileage.
• Opportunities to develop new and specialist skills.
• Innovative training and development opportunities.
• Supportive integrated teams and a friendly working environment.
• Professional supervision to a high standard.

Next steps

Come and join Team Bury!

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you! For an informal discussion about the role please contact Sakera Sheth, Service Manager, on 0161 253 7452 or S.Sheth@bury.gov.uk

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