Deputy Team Manager - Care and Support Team (CAST)

The Role

Do you see yourself leading a dedicated team to deliver life-changing support for adults with mental health needs?

Can you use your leadership and social work expertise to drive high-quality, person-centred care?

If yes, we have the perfect role for you!

Our Care and Support Team (CAST) is looking for a passionate and dedicated Deputy Team Manager to join our amazing team and help make a difference today.

About the Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a leadership role within our specialist mental health service, providing assessment, intervention, and support for adults with complex needs.

As Deputy Team Manager, you’ll work closely with the Team Manager to ensure the delivery of high-quality, strengths-based and person-centred care. You’ll provide supervision, professional guidance, and leadership to social workers and assistant practitioners, while also maintaining a small, complex caseload.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the Team Manager in leading and developing the team to deliver excellent practice.
• Providing supervision, performance management, and professional guidance to staff.
• Overseeing complex assessments, care planning, and case management for adults with significant mental health and social care needs.
• Acting as a Safeguarding Adults Manager, leading investigations and ensuring robust safeguarding practice.
• Promoting effective partnership working across health, social care, and community networks.
• Contributing to service improvement initiatives and quality assurance processes.

About You:

We’re looking for an experienced and motivated professional who can balance people leadership with frontline expertise. You’ll be confident in supporting others, managing complexity, and championing best practice.

You will have:

• A Social Work qualification and registration with Social Work England.
• Strong knowledge of Adult Social Care legislation, mental health practice, and safeguarding frameworks.
• Proven experience supervising and developing staff within a busy social care environment.
• Excellent skills in assessment, case management, and risk management.
• A commitment to strengths-based, person-centred, and anti-discriminatory practice.

About the Team:

The Care and Support Team (CAST) is part of Southwark Council’s Adult Social Care division, delivering specialist mental health services for adults with complex needs. We pride ourselves on our collaborative, inclusive culture and our commitment to professional growth.

As part of Southwark, you’ll benefit from:

• A supportive and inclusive workplace that values wellbeing and professional respect.
• Ongoing training and leadership development opportunities.
• Flexible working options and family-friendly policies.
• Generous annual leave and membership in the Local Government Pension Scheme.

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert.

Contact Information:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alex Waddington at alex.waddington@southwark.gov.uk

This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at Enhanced level.

Benefits and more information:

For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Recruitment timetable

Advert close date: 11:59pm on 14th December 2025

Shortlisting date/s: 19th December 2025

Interview date/s: 13th January 2026

The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. We strongly advise you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Attachments

• CAST_DeputyManager_JD.pdf