Assistant Team Manager - Turning Point - Ref: CH04726
G10: £47,181 - £50,269 per annum.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of an Assistant Team Manager within Turning Point, our Adolescent support hub in Walsall.
About the service
Turning Point is an Adolescent support service, providing help and support to children aged between 8 and 18 years old who are experiencing difficulties in family relationships.
Turning Point adopt a co-working model of intervention alongside Family Help practitioners and social workers within the Family Help Service and social workers within the Children in our Care Service. Turning Point provides intensive family support and intervention for approximately 20 weeks, which is flexible to the needs of the family.
Turning Point intervention focuses on prevention of children and young people coming into the care of the local authority by utilising the AMBIT model (Adaptive mentalisation based integrative treatment) to provide planned intensive support to a family where complex needs are identified in order to empower and enable the family to work together to remain living as a family. In addition, Turning Point support with reunification for children in our care to return to the care of their parents or wider family, supporting prior to, during and following the reunification to support stable and sustainable family relationships.
Turning Point use assessment tools based around the AMBIT approach with the ultimate aim of supporting young people and their parents/ carers to be able to mentalise each other and understand each other’s mind set and thought processes and includes reflective parenting work.
The role of Turning Point is to support the family to identify the issues affecting the stability of the home and support, enable and empower them to mentalise and adapt to make the required changes in order to begin working together towards forming a cohesive family unit. This can include mediation and/or family group conferencing. In addition, Turning Point has Speech and Language Therapists within the team and positive activities practitioners that support in enhancing the Turning Point offer to families.
About the role
As the Assistant Team Manager of Turning Point, you will be responsible, alongside the Team Manager, for the leadership and management of a multi- disciplinary team of practitioners including Adolescent support hub practitioners, positive activities coordinator positive activities assistant coordinator and Speech and Language Therapists, ensuring that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard, promote their welfare and strengthen family relationships.
As the Assistant Team Manager of Turning Point, you will oversee, guide and support the Turning Point Adolescent Support Hub Practitioners alongside the Team Manager, to develop, implement and review intervention to support best outcomes for children and their families that empowers and enables the family to work together to strengthen relationships and remain living as a family.
You will lead and promote the AMBIT (Adaptive mentalisation based integrative treatment) model of intervention, based around life story, life experience, mentalisation and trauma informed intervention, enabling young people and their parents/carers to understand each other’s mindsets and thought processes, in addition to promoting reflective parenting.
About you
You will be an experienced practitioner who is enthusiastic, passionate and knowledgeable about working with children, young people and their families to support and enable them to strengthen family relationships. You will have previous experience of supervising and managing practitioners adopting a systemic practice and reflective practice approach.
You will be professional, dynamic and lead with care and compassion. You will have excellent communication skills with families and a wide range of practitioners and partners. You will have experience of chairing multi-disciplinary meetings and be able to manage and direct resource appropriately and make decisions in the interests of children and their families, in line with the role requirements outlined in the job description and employee specification.
You will be experienced in considering a range of complex needs for children, young people and their families and be confident in your consideration of needs and risks, supporting in identifying robust help and support for children, young people and their families and support in achieving positive outcomes.
You will be comfortable with data analysis and report writing and will be able to work well with partner agencies both internally and externally.
Above all you will be driven to make positive changes for our children, young people and families in Walsall and invested in the development of the staff and service. If this is you, we are excited to hear from you.
Why work for us:
Our staff are our biggest resources, and we want to invest in them! We have a great range of benefits available to us as Council employees. These benefits include Discounts for holidays, groceries, clothes, electrics and gym membership; Financial benefits, Expenses, Flexible leave and Professional Development.
Our model of work is hybrid, you will work 2-3 days office based (or as required) and the ability to work from home. We also offer a 9 day per fortnight pattern of working for our practitioners.
You will be respected and valued and feel a part of a connected team and service.
Read more about our benefits at https://go.walsall.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers-/benefits-of-working-for-us
For all enquires reading this role, please contact Jodie Berry, Team Manager at [email protected]
View Job Description and Employee Specification
Important note: When completing your online application form, you will be asked to enter supporting information. You must enter a detailed supporting information statement describing how your skills, abilities and experience meet the specific criteria included in the employee specification. If you do not include a supporting information statement, you will not be shortlisted. Please also ensure that you complete the work history and qualifications sections of your application form. Please do not add a CV as we do not accept them. Please see our Information for Applicants leaflet for further information.
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Closing Date: 5 th August 2026
Interview Date: 18th August 2026
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