Social Work Team Leader (Community Mental Health Team)

Coventry City Council; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in Coventry is seeking a Team Leader for their Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. The successful candidate will oversee Social Workers, contribute to duty rotas as an Approved Mental Health Professional, and chair assessments. Candidates must be a Registered Social Worker and possess strong leadership and organizational skills. This is a chance to work in a diverse team, offering great training and career progression opportunities while making a difference to the lives of older adults.

Benefits

Regular professional supervision

Excellent in-house training opportunities

Competitive salary and benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in an Older Adults CMHT or similar service.
• Ability to develop personal home treatment plans.
• Stamina and a great sense of humour.

Responsibilities

• Line management and professional governance of Social Workers.
• Contribute to the AMHP Duty Rota as an AMHP.
• Chair Best Interest Assessment meetings.

Skills

Leadership skills

Knowledge of MHA, MCA, and Care Act

Organizational skills

Negotiating skills

IT skills

Education

Registered Social Worker with Social Work England

Qualification as an Approved Mental Health Professional

Job description

What is the job role?

We have a fabulous and rare opportunity to join our Older Adults Community Mental Health Team in Coventry as a Team Leader based at Longford Health Centre.

Coventry is a growing, culturally and ethnically diverse city. Our Older Adults Community Mental Health Team is a specialist multi-disciplinary team focusing on the needs of people living with the effects of Memory impairment and chronic and enduring mental disorders. The Team provides specialist assessments and interventions embracing the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding investigations and protection of human rights and civil liberties.

We work to a model embracing self-directed care, utilising strengths-based approaches, co-production and promoting independence. The team is multi-disciplinary, incorporating Community Mental Health Nurses, Approved Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Support Workers and clerical staff.

The service is for predominantly older adults with a memory impairment or chronic and enduring mental disorders. Your main duties will include the line management and professional governance of the Social Workers within the team, contributing to the AMHP Duty Rota as an AMHP and providing senior cover when required, scrutinising applications for community care funding under The Care Act, chairing Best Interest Assessment meetings and helping oversee Safeguarding enquiries/ investigations.

For an informal discussion regarding the post please contact Matthew Bilbe.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 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.

Who are we looking for?

Applicants should be a Registered Social Worker with Social Work England and hold a qualification as an Approved Mental Health Professional. You will have experience as a mental health practitioner in an Older Adults CMHT or similar service with people who live with a memory impairment and/or severe/enduring mental health issues.

We are looking for a Team Leader who is also an Approved Mental Health Professional. You will have :

• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to deliver high quality professional supervision.
• Working knowledge of and application of MHA, MCA, the Care Act and Children’s Act and protection of human rights.
• Organisational, recording and workload management skills.
• Diplomacy, negotiating and listening skills.
• Ability to work in partnership with people, carers and colleagues, co-producing and securing positive outcomes for people.
• Ability to develop personal home treatment plans.
• Good IT skills.
• A vision for your own career development and future training needs.
• A proactive, creative, resilient and flexible approach to work, stamina and a great sense of humour!

In return you will :

• Be welcomed in joining a highly professional and thoroughly hard working, friendly team.
• Receive regular peer group and individual professional supervision from the Team Manager and our AMHP Lead.
• Receive excellent in house and external training opportunities.
• Be offered excellent career and development opportunities.
• Experience opportunities to attend and present at various professional forums including our Pre-Court Legal Panel and Approved Mental Health Professional forum.
• Be rewarded with a highly competitive salary, leave entitlement and benefits package.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our to see how we can assist you.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria :

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

Within our team LGBTQ+ and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are currently under-represented across our team/middle-management team, as a result we would like to encourage both LGBTQ+ and people from ethnic minority backgrounds to apply for this post. This does not prevent any other applicants with a protected characteristic or a non-protected characteristic from applying.

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.