Team Leader

Coventry City Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local governmental organization in the United Kingdom seeks a Team Leader for the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. In this role, you will manage a multi-disciplinary team focused on supporting older adults with mental health issues. Key responsibilities include supervising social workers, contributing to AMHP duty, and leading safeguarding inquiries. The ideal candidate will be a registered social worker and an Approved Mental Health Professional with excellent leadership abilities and a passion for promoting independence and well-being among residents.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Training opportunities

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered social worker with experience in mental health care for older adults.
• Experience as a mental health practitioner in a similar service.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team.
• Oversee line management and professional governance of social workers.
• Contribute to AMHP duty rota and provide senior cover.

Skills

Leadership skills

Knowledge of MHA and MCA

Organizational skills

Diplomacy and negotiating skills

IT skills

Education

Qualification as a registered social worker with Social Work England

Approved Mental Health Professional qualification

Job description

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias. We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this. In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’. In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

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 – [e-mail]. 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.

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 the MHA, MCA, the Care Act and Children’s Act and protection of human rights.
  • Organisational, recording and workload management skills.
  • Diplomacy, negotiating, 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.

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
• Currently in care or have previously been in care
• Consider yourself disabled or you have a long‑term health condition

Within our team LGBTQ+ and people from global majority backgrounds are currently under‑represented across our team/middle‑management team, as a result we would like to encourage both LGBTQ+ and people from global majority 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 5100 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.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package – to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies