Overview
In this Team Manager role within Liverpool City Council’s Adult Social Care, you lead the Mental Health Hospital Discharge Team to ensure timely, safe and legally compliant discharges. You’ll work closely with health partners, housing, and providers to resolve barriers and promote least restrictive, person-centred outcomes. You’ll oversee complex discharge pathways and support staff in high‑pressure settings while driving service improvement. This is a chance to shape discharge practice in a way that puts residents’ rights and well‑being at the heart of decision‑making. You’ll join a values‑driven, public‑service environment that aims to reduce unnecessary hospital stays and strengthen cross
Pay / Benefits
- 31 days holiday plus bank holidays
- agile working (Flexibility First)
- Local Government Pension Scheme (AVC option)
- health and wellbeing programme
- Cycle to Work and Travel Pass
- Discounted Gym Memberships
Responsibilities
- Provide day‑to‑day leadership and management of the Hospital Discharge Team
- Oversee and quality assure complex discharge planning, ensuring timely progression and reducing delays
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including the Care Act, Mental Health Act, and Mental Capacity Act
- Maintain oversight of risk management, legal frameworks, and decision‑making in complex cases
- Work closely with health partners to support effective and coordinated discharge pathways
- Monitor delayed discharges, escalations, and system pressures, taking proactive action where required
- Provide supervision, reflective practice, and performance management to staff
- Support staff to work confidently within high‑pressure, complex environments
- Lead on service performance, data oversight, and improvement planning
- Contribute to service development, including improving discharge pathways and partnership working
- Promote and support staff wellbeing, resilience, and professional development
Key requirements
- Experience in adult social care, ideally within mental health and/or hospital discharge settings
- Strong knowledge of statutory frameworks and legal literacy
- Experience managing complex risk, capacity, and safeguarding issues
- Ability to lead and support staff to make defensible, person‑centred decisions in challenging situations
- Confidence working across systems and building effective partnerships with health and other agencies
- Ability to manage performance, demand, and competing pressures while maintaining quality
- Commitment to strengths‑based, trauma‑informed practice
- leadership and people management
- strong communication and collaboration
- resilience under pressure
- knowledge of Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act
- risk management in complex cases
- performance management and data oversight
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