Team Manager – Home First Community

About the role

Are you a confident, compassionate and forward-thinking leader who wants to make a real difference in people’s lives? We are looking for an experienced Team Manager to lead and inspire Support Managers within our Home First Community Team, helping adults across Sheffield regain independence, stay safe, and continue living well at home.

This is a varied and rewarding leadership role at the heart of Adult Care and Wellbeing. You will shape day-to-day operational delivery, support high standards of reablement practice, and work closely with colleagues and partners to deliver services that are responsive, effective and person-centred. You will bring energy, judgement and a strong improvement mindset to help the service continue to develop and thrive.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, motivate and support a team delivering high-quality, strengths-based reablement services.
• Make sure everyday service delivery is safe, responsive, efficient and focused on positive outcomes for people.
• Use staffing, budgets and resources wisely to meet service priorities and customer needs.
• Drive service improvement through planning, quality assurance, performance monitoring and learning.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams, external agencies, partners and stakeholders.
• Develop staff through supervision, appraisal, mentoring, coaching and clear performance support.
• Represent the service and deputise for the Registered Manager at meetings and working groups when needed.
• Contribute to change management, business continuity and out-of-hours arrangements.

About you

You will be someone who leads with clarity, confidence and care. You will have strong operational management experience in social care and the ability to bring out the best in people, creating a positive team culture where staff feel supported, accountable and able to do their best work.

You will understand the needs of older people and adults with complex needs, and you will be passionate about safe, effective and person-centred support. You will bring sound judgement, strong communication skills, experience of partnership working, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Essential requirements

• Experience of supervising, managing and developing staff within social care provision.
• Experience of working with older people or adults with complex needs and their carers.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working, service improvement and change management.
• Knowledge of care standards, health and social care frameworks, and customer-focused service delivery.
• Experience of budget, resource and performance management.
• A recognised Health and Social Care qualification at minimum NVQ Level 4 or equivalent.

Why this role matters

Home First Community plays a vital role in helping people return home, rebuild confidence and live as independently as possible. As Team Manager, you will have the opportunity to influence practice, support committed colleagues, and make a visible difference to adults, carers and families across Sheffield.

You will join a service that values collaboration, fairness, communication and fresh thinking — and where strong leadership helps people achieve better outcomes every day.

Ready to lead a service that changes lives? If you have the skills, experience and values to lead high-quality adult social care services, we would love to hear from you.

For further details please contact Helen Martlew, Registered Manager 07717361795 or Sandra Dudek, Service Manager 07391738901.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.  Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade. 

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page. 

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.