Early Adulthood Team Manager
| Posting date: | 11 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 April 2026 |
| Location: | Stockport, SK1 3XE |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75792531 |
Summary
Early Adulthood Team Manager
MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356 pro rata, actual salary £43,653 - £48,580)
35 hours, Part-Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Stopford House with some flexibility subject to service need for homeworking.
Application Deadline: 25 March 2026, 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: 26 March 2026
Interview Date: 6 April 2026
Interview Type: Face to face (Stopford House)
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Your Role
Our Early Adulthood Team are looking to recruit a Team Manager who has experience of working with adults and young people who are becoming adults and have Care Act eligible needs.
The post holder will provide leadership at an appropriate level to establish and maintain a strength-based culture of teamwork, achievement, accountability, and outcome focused. This includes providing supervision and support to the staff team as well as contributing to the ever-developing service.
About You
You will be a team player who has a keen interest in achieving better outcomes and a Gloriously Ordinary Life for young people and their families; you will have specific experience of working with young people / adults who have a learning disability or are autistic. You will be someone who likes to develop social workers to achieve the best they can. You will bring your excellent organisational skills to the role. In addition, you will have the ability to be creative with budgets and good at problem solving.
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 Liz Stevens on Liz.stevens@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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