Team Manager - Community Wellbeing Teams – Hospital Social Care Team

The Adult Social Care Teams support adults to maintain their health and wellbeing, and maximise independence, choice and control.

The Hospital Social Care team is located in Dewsbury District Hospital and supports adults with complex health and social care needs. The team provides assessments, support packages and early reviews to Kirklees residents that have been admitted to hospital to facilitate timely discharge.

The Role

As a Team Manager, you will lead and manage a team of staff including qualified Social Workers. Hospital discharge is a fast-paced environment, and the team works to clearly defined targets and deadlines. Consequently, you will play a key role in ensuring the timely completion of assessments and effective discharge planning. This will also involve you developing positive, supportive relationships with our partner agencies, including the acute hospital trust.

You will also be responsible for monitoring your team’s budget and ensuring that the council is getting best value for care packages and placements.

To support you in your role, there are 2 Deputy Team Managers, who also provide the majority of supervision to the frontline staff.

Change management skills are vital to ensure that changes are embraced positively by your team, whilst fostering a creative ethos to guarantee vulnerable adults are supported with care that is individual to them. You will support your team to adopt enabling approaches and appropriate levels of intervention keeping them to a minimum where required to facilitate individuals independence and positive risk taking as far as possible.

As well as having regular supervision from your Line Manager, you will also have an annual appraisal, as well as a full induction plan when you commence in post.

As part of our approach to a healthy work-life balance, there is a range of flexible work patterns available. Our special leave provisions and family friendly policies combined with flexible ways of working across the council aim to both improve work life balance and service delivery.

You will be expected to participate on the managers on call rota. The commitment to this is approximately 1 Saturday every 9 weeks.

You must hold a recognised social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.

BENEFITS

Our employees are at the very heart of the services we provide to the community, to help us achieve our ambitions, we want the best possible team. In return, we will make sure you are rewarded with a great range of staff benefits to support you in and out of work.

At interview, you will be expected to demonstrate your ability to lead and manage a team, including providing supervision and controlling budgets and resources. You should have extensive experience as a social worker in an adult social care setting, and ideally have experience at deputy or team manager level.

Interviews to take place on Monday 6th July 2026.