Team Manager - Locality & Well Hubs

Team Manager – Locality & Well Being Hubs

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made – please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

Organisation: Kirklees

Directorate: Adults & Health

Service Area: Adults Social Care Operation

Hours: 37

Number of Jobs: 2

Location(s): Huddersfield & Batley

Position type: Permanent

Grade: Grade 14

Salary: £51,356 - £53,460

Kirklees Council, Adult Social Care are looking for talented and capable Team Managers to lead our Dewsbury & Slaithwaite Locality and wellbeing Hubs. The Community Wellbeing Teams support adults to maintain their health and wellbeing, maximising independence, choice and control. The Community Wellbeing Locality Hubs support people with complex health and social care needs, with physical and sensory disabilities and older people.

Job 1 is based at Batley Town Hall & Job 2 is based at Slaithwaite Town Hall. The teams provide assessments, ongoing support and regular reviews to service users within the locality. As a Team Manager you will lead and manage a team of staff including qualified Social Workers. You will have a fundamental role in the safeguarding of some of the most vulnerable people in Kirklees.

You will have ownership of the safeguarding processes including overseeing safeguarding cases within the team whilst promoting rights and choices for the vulnerable individuals. Change management skills are vital to ensure that changes are embraced positively by your team, whilst fostering a creative ethos to guarantee vulnerable adults are supported with care that is individual to them. You will support your team to adopt enabling approaches and appropriate levels of intervention keeping them to a minimum where required to facilitate individuals’ independence and positive risk taking as far as possible.

As part of our approach to a healthy work-life balance there is a range of flexible work patterns available. Our special leave provisions and family friendly policies combined with flexible ways of working across the council aim to both improve work life balance and service delivery.

For an informal discussion or to request more information please contact Alison Sanderson Service Manager for Adult Social Care Operations on .

This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level; a conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process. We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. If you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email or phone: and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Closing date: 18 January 2026, 11:55 PM