Assistant Team Manager - Mental Health

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a Locum Assistant Team Manager to join its client’s Mental Health Team, based at Tameside.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will:

Provide day‑to‑day operational leadership across the Mental Health Team, supervising practitioners, allocating workloads, ensuring statutory compliance, and maintaining high‑quality practice in line with the Care Act and Mental Health Act

Offer professional oversight on complex, high‑risk, or escalated cases, supporting decision‑making around safeguarding, risk management, Mental Capacity Act application, and multi‑agency interventions

Drive service performance and improvement by monitoring outcomes, supporting audits, embedding recovery‑focused practice, and working collaboratively with health partners, AMHP services, and community providers

Qualifications & Experience:

• To be successful in this role, you must have: Social Work England registration
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• A full UK driving licence
• Post‑qualified experience within Adult Mental Health Services
• Degree level qualification (or equivalent) in Social Work
• Experience in supervising staff and managing complex cases
• Why Liquid Personnel?
• Immediate start with an initial 3‑month contract
• Free on‑site parking
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice‑weekly payroll and Faster Pay service
• Access to exclusive management roles not available through other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of locum roles across the UK
• Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
• Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support throughout the recruitment process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents of countries on the Red or Amber list of the Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Health and Social Care Personnel in England, based on the WHO Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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