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Team Manager (Mental Health Services)
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Coventry City Council
This is an exciting time to join Coventry's Community Mental Health Service. Following our recent successful Adults CQC inspection, we are continuing to invest in and strengthen our mental health services to ensure people receive high-quality, person-centred support when they need it most. An opportunity has arisen to join our Community Mental Health Teams in Coventry as a Team Manager.
About the Role
You will manage a Team of professionals who work with people living with a range of mental health challenges including psychosis, mood disorders, and self-harming behaviours. The diverse team is fully multi-disciplinary and work towards specific interventions embracing human rights, promoting independence, strength-based recovery practices, Safeguarding, The Care Act, Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts.
You will be based at Swanswell Point and lead 2 Team Leaders, Approved Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, and Community Case Managers. Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing line management, professional supervision, reflective practice, and quality assurance.
- Being an Approved Mental Health Professional.
- Having managerial experience and the ability to work closely with our partner NHS agency, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, voluntary organisations, other statutory agencies, and with groups, communities, and individuals with lived experiences.
- Supporting your team to address the social determinants of mental ill health, including housing, debt management, substance misuse, and recovery-based activities supporting people on their ‘best life’ journeys.
- Working in partnership with people with lived experiences, co-producing, facilitating, and promoting independence.
- Helping deliver the principles of the Care Act 2014, The Mental Health Act, and Mental Capacity Act, and supporting strength-based practices within a least restrictive framework.
- Being part of a Senior Management Team across Mental Health and Adult Social Care services and helping develop quality assurance and a strategic vision.
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Requirements
You will be keen to join the team and be passionate about making a difference. You should have the skills and experience we're looking for, including:
- Proven leadership and decision-making skills.
- Working and comprehensive knowledge of and application of MHA, MCA, The Care Act, and Children’s Act.
- The ability to recognise and investigate safeguarding concerns.
- A working knowledge of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Excellent risk assessment and management skills.
- Organisation, recording, and workload management skills.
- Diplomacy, negotiating, and listening skills.
- Ability to work in collaboration with people with lived experiences, carers, and colleagues.
About You
Within our senior management team, women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented, so we would like to encourage both women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds to apply for this post. This does not prevent any other applicants with a protected characteristic or a non-protected characteristic from applying.
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Benefits
In return you will benefit from:
- Being welcomed in joining a highly professional and thoroughly hard-working, friendly team.
- Individual professional supervision from the General Manager.
- Being part of a Senior Management Team.
- Excellent in-house and external training opportunities.
- Opportunities to experience and present at various professional forums, including our Pre-Court Legal Panel and AMHP Forums.
- A highly competitive salary with career development opportunities.
Application
Keen to join the team? If you're passionate about making a difference and feel you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today. To find out further information and for an informal discussion, please contact Matthew Bilbe by email at Matthew.Bilbe@Coventry.gov.uk or by phone on 024 7697 6256.
Note:
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and as such, appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.
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