Service Manager - Integrated Mental Health Services

Permanent Opportunity | Step up from Team Manager | Leadership/Development

I am seeking an experienced, compassionate and practice-focused Service Manager to lead three integrated community mental health teams:

Salary: £52,000–£58,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time (37 hours per week)

• Older People’s Mental Health Team
• Working-Age Adults Mental Health Team
• Early Assessment / Early Intervention Team

This is a senior leadership role for a registered Social Worker who is passionate about improving outcomes for people accessing secondary mental health services. You will lead teams to deliver coordinated, high-quality, legally sound social work practice within an integrated health and social care setting.

Working closely with health-service partners, you will build effective relationships across organisational boundaries while ensuring strong social work leadership, professional standards and statutory accountability.

You will provide visible, supportive leadership across the service, enabling practitioners to develop their expertise and deliver confident, person-centred practice. The teams are office-based, supporting a collaborative working environment, shared learning and accessible management support.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and developing three community mental health social work teams.
• Supporting practitioners to build on their individual skills, experience and professional expertise.
• Providing oversight of complex professional, safeguarding and statutory social work matters.
• Driving high standards of quality, performance, governance and assurance.
• Managing staffing, HR matters, budgets and workforce planning.
  
  Supporting effective roster and resource-management arrangements.
• Promoting strong clinical, professional and social work governance.
• Producing and contributing to quality and performance reporting.
• Leading service improvement and helping shape integrated mental health pathways.
• Working as part of the wider senior leadership team, responding flexibly to service priorities.

You will be a credible, values-led Social Work leader with experience of managing services within mental health, adult social care or an integrated health and care environment. You will bring:

• A compassionate and inclusive leadership style.
• Strong knowledge of adult social care, mental health legislation and statutory responsibilities.
• Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary or integrated teams.
• Confidence handling complex professional practice issues and organisational change.
• The ability to think strategically while remaining connected to frontline practice.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with staff, partners and stakeholders.
• A genuine commitment to improving systems, strengthening practice and achieving better outcomes for people who use services.

This is an opportunity to play a central role in developing integrated community mental health services and supporting skilled practitioners to deliver excellent social work.

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