Team Manager (Assessment Team)

As Adult Assessment Team Manager, you will lead a vital front door service within Adult Social Care, ensuring adults with care and support needs receive timely, lawful and high quality assessments and interventions. This is a pivotal operational leadership role, combining strong people management with professional oversight and strategic thinking. You will be responsible for the day to day delivery of Care Act assessments, safeguarding responses, hospital discharges and short term interventions, ensuring practice is strengths based, person centred and outcome focused. With oversight of complex cases you will ensure defensible decision making, effective risk management and compliance with legislation and local policy. Working closely with health colleagues, housing services, voluntary sector partners and internal council teams, you will play a key role in maintaining safe discharge pathways, preventing escalation of need and supporting residents to live as independently as possible. You will also contribute to service development, quality assurance and continuous improvement within a learning organisation that values reflection and innovation.