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

Benefits:

Immediate start with initial 3 month contract

Free on-site Parking

Hybrid working

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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