Assistant Team Manager (Mental Health Team)

We are hiring an Assistant Team Manager to work in our Mental Health Team.

As part of an experienced team, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering our service, providing a specialist social work service to Solihull residents who require support due to having a mental health illness. We work closely with our mental health colleagues and are based in an NHS building (The Maple Leaf Centre), from which we run our own duty service

Together with the Team Manager, you will take responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of your team. Though you will have an office base, you are required to work from other locations within the Solihull borough.

You will ensure our services are delivered in a person centred and strengths-based way, to achieve better outcomes for our people, carers and their families.

Supervising and quality assuring the work of staff reporting to you, you will ensure it is carried out in line with good professional practice, legal and directorate requirements and performance standards.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A professional social work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Substantial post-qualified experience in Adult Social Work services.
• Experience of providing professional supervision to others.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering person-centred working and strength-based practice.

Our Offer to You

In return, you will be part of a wider team where you will be valued, with the opportunity to shape and improve the services we deliver to our diverse community. We have close partnerships across agencies in the borough. We are a small and friendly local authority with good relationships across adult care and support.

We also understand that our employees have commitments and interests outside work and encourage good work-life balance by offering a flexible and agile working environment; this is further supplemented by an extensive wellbeing offer, as well as a range of other benefits including staff discounts and a career average pension scheme.

Working to a hybrid model, these roles will involve a combination of office and home working.

Closing Date for completed applications is Sunday, 11 October 2026.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday, 21 and Thursday, 22 October 2026.

This post will require a DBS check.

Please note: As part of our compliance and safer recruitment requirements, references will be sought for all successful candidates following interview. A reference must be provided by the candidate’s current or most recent employer or training provider. Where this does not cover the last three years, an additional reference will be required from the candidate’s next most recent employer or training provider. Posts subject to statutory regulation may require additional scrutiny. Personal/character references will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

Solihull Council is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Solihull Council has a responsibility for, and is committed to, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Attached documents

JDPS Assistant Team Manager (MHT) Sept 26.docx

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