Team Manager (Mental Health Services

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.

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
• You will provide line management, professional supervision, reflective practice and quality assurance.
• You will be a
  Approved Mental Health Professional
  .
• You will have managerial experience and have 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.
• You will support 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.
• You will work in partnership with people with lived experiences, co-producing, facilitating and promoting independence.
• You will help deliver the principles of the Care Act 2014, The Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, you will support strength based practices within a least restrictive framework.
• You will be part of a Senior Management Team across Mental Health and Adult Social Care services and help develop quality assurance and have a strategic vision.

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.

We are looking for an experienced and proactive manager who is also an Approved Mental Health Professional and who is registered with Social Worker England. You will have a passion for promoting independence and aiding recovery from the effects of mental health disorders. The successful candidates will:

• 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, listening skills.
• Be able to work in collaboration with people with lived experiences, carers and colleagues.

Within our senior management team women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented, as a result 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.

In return you will benefit from:

• Be welcomed in joining a highly professional and thoroughly hard working, friendly team
• Individual professional supervision from the General Manager
• Be 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
• Highly competitive salary with career development opportunities