About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council’s Emergency Duty Team has a fantastic opportunity for a permanent full time Team Manager.
We are seeking an experienced Team Manager to manage Emergency Duty Team (EDT) which is a shared service across Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council and covers Adults and Childrens. This post is for an Adult’s Team Manager and you will need to be an experienced manager and registered Social Worker and warranted Approved Mental Health Practitioner to lead this out of hours service
This is a critical out-of-hours management role ensuring the delivery of a safe, high-quality crisis response service for adults. The EDT fulfils the statutory duty of the Council’s to provide the out of hours AMHP service 37 hours per week, covering mainly from Monday-Thursday 5pm to 8am, Friday 4pm to Monday 8am, including bank holidays.
This role involves managing a team of 5 senior social workers and relief social workers, providing supervision, and ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and policies. Additionally, the manager will also support the Children’s part of the service on a rota basis.
So, if you are a confident leader who thrives on improving lives, influencing practice, and making services the best they can be, this is your next step. Bring your expertise. Lead with purpose. Make a real difference every day for the people we care about.
To discuss this vacancy, please contact the Service Manager Sam Perrins on Sam.Perrins@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or Michelle Foster on michelle.foster2@cpft.nhs.uk.
We are planning to hold interviews for this position during the week beginning the 13th April 2026.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to reflect this diversity, which we believe is beneficial for our employees, the organisation, and the communities we serve.
What will you be doing?
In this role, you will lead with purpose—supporting and inspiring a dedicated EDT AMHP team while championing wellbeing, high‑quality practice, and legal excellence. You will ensure that every Mental Health Act assessment is carried out to the highest standard, with full compliance to legislation, safeguarding frameworks, and best‑practice guidance.
You will help shape the future of the service by contributing to strategic planning and service innovation, ensuring a responsive and effective AMHP provision. Working collaboratively across agencies, you will use your expert legal knowledge to strengthen partnerships and deliver joined‑up, person‑centred support.
You will be responsible for workforce development, including workforce planning, professional development, and performance oversight, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. As a leader, you will bring resilience and clarity to emergency planning, service continuity, and organisational change.
Your role will also include the supervision and appraisal of individual team members, ensuring professional social care and AMHP practice standards are met and that continuous professional development is embedded and recorded. You will provide consultation and guidance on complex children and young people’s legislation when required and participate in the Team Manager on‑call rota (alternating with the EDT Children’s Team Manager).
You will monitor and manage team performance using available data and tools to ensure performance against local and national targets is achieved and maintained. Additionally, you will routinely quality‑assure and audit social work case records, assessments, plans, and documentation to uphold practice standards and support staff development and appraisal.
About you
You will be a registered and warranted AMHP with substantial frontline experience in both Adult Services and AMHP practice. You bring a deep understanding of the Care Act, the Mental Health Act, and the legislation governing children’s and adult services, with the confidence to interpret and apply the law in complex situations. Your professional background will include a recognised social work qualification—such as DipSW, CQSW, or BA (Hons) in Social Work—and you will be registered with Social Work England.
In this role, you will ensure that all statutory duties are upheld and that practice across the team consistently aligns with CCC/PCC/CPFT standards, including requirements for case recording and the implementation of information‑sharing agreements. You will also take responsibility for ensuring compliance with all mandatory training expectations across the organisation.
You will provide strong professional oversight, offering high‑quality supervision to Senior Social Workers and Social Workers, and ensuring that all supervisory activity is accurately and appropriately recorded. Your leadership style will be grounded in professionalism, clarity, and a commitment to supporting others to deliver excellent, legally robust social work practice.
Essential: Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- 6 days of protected time each year to support in maintaining your Continuous Professional Development
- A relocation package of up to £8,000 (eligibility applies)
- A pay progression scheme to enable you to accelerate through the pay grade as you gain experience and skills
- A Refer a Friend Scheme where if you refer another Social Worker to us who is subsequently employed by us as a result of that introduction, we’ll pay you an introduction fee of £350
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
For more information and to see our other benefits, take a look at the benefits brochure attached to this advert.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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