Team Manager - Integrated Mental Health Service
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Job Title: Team Manager - Integrated Mental Health Service
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Organisation: Hackney Council Anonymous Apps > Adults, Health & Integration
Job Number: HCAA02669
Service: Adult Social Care
DBS Required: Yes
Organisation Logo: Hackney Council
Agreement Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Contracted Hours: 36
Grade: PO7 - PO8
SCP Range: £60,633 - £64,938
The Role:
Lead and Innovate: Team Manager, Integrated Mental Health Services. Are you a highly experienced Social Work professional ready to step into a Team Manager role and champion high-quality, actively anti-racist practice?
The London Borough of Hackney is a dynamic, progressive, and creative borough. We are committed to social justice, fighting for equity across gender, neurodiversity, and the poverty divide, and are focused on becoming an actively anti-racist borough. We invite you to take a clear leadership role in shaping and embedding our redesigned Integrated Mental Health Service (IMHS) pathways.
The Role: Your Impact
Join our Section 75 partnership with East London Foundation Trust (ELFT). This role is about providing day-to-day leadership and driving high-quality, strengths-based practice for adults with mental health needs.
You will:
- Lead and supervise a team of social workers and staff, ensuring legally compliant and person-centred practice.
- Drive forward strengths-based, trauma-informed, and anti-racist practice in all areas of work.
- Manage performance, allocate workload, and ensure quality assurance within your team.
- Oversee complex safeguarding and contribute to service-wide priorities and change programmes.
- Work collaboratively with ELFT and wider partners to deliver integrated support for residents.
About You: Essential Requirements
We are looking for professionals ready to develop their management career. You must bring:
A recognised Social Work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, particularly the Care Act, Mental Health Act, and Mental Capacity Act.
About Us:
Experience in supervising staff and overseeing casework to drive quality assurance.
Excellent leadership skills with a commitment to inclusion, collaboration, and professional curiosity.
What We Offer You
Hackney believes our staff are our greatest asset. We offer a supportive environment for you to thrive and develop your career.
Benefits include:
Comprehensive training and development, including leadership programmes, mentoring, and coaching.
Manageable caseload oversight and a strong senior management structure to support you.
A range of financial, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including flexible working options, tenancy deposit loans, and discounted gym membership.
As a Council, our most outstanding asset is our staff, who are highly dedicated to serving our residents and committed to our goals as an organisation.
If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values so we achieve the best for our residents, please click on the apply button below.
We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Therefore, we do not accept supporting statements or CV’s.
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As part of the application process, you will need to complete a number of competency based questions. These questions allow you to demonstrate your suitability for the role and provide examples of your skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description.
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Prior to applying for a vacancy for a secondment opportunity, please liaise with your line manager and inform them of your interest in applying for the role.
This application process replaces a supporting statement.
Closing date for applications: 23 November 2025 (22:59)
Interview date: January 2026
We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.
Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under represented in our workforce.
The Council has a dedicated employment support service (Hackney Works), which offers Hackney residents guidance in relation to applying for jobs. If you are thinking about applying for a job, please contact the Hackney Works team to find out what support is available: hackneyworks@hackney.gov.uk
Salary range
- £60,633 - £64,938 per year