Team Leader and Forensic Mental Health Social Worker

Coventry City Council; Preston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council recrute un Team Leader et Forensic Mental Health Social Worker à Preston. Ce rôle permet de rejoindre une équipe dynamique dédiée à soutenir les citoyens souffrant de troubles mentaux, tout en développant vos compétences en leadership. En tant que membre de cette équipe, vous aurez l'occasion de travailler avec des collaborateurs issus de divers horizons et de contribuer à des initiatives de soins innovantes. Le rôle offre également de nombreuses opportunités de formation et de développement professionnel.

Benefits

Opportunités de formation en interne et externe

Supervision professionnelle régulière

Excellentes opportunités de carrière et de développement

Qualifications

• Expérience en tant que praticien de la santé mentale dans une équipe de santé mentale communautaire.
• Bonne connaissance des droits humains et des lois applicables.
• Compétences en gestion des charges de travail et en organisation.

Responsibilities

• Diriger une équipe de santé mentale et fournir des supervisions professionnelles.
• Assurer des évaluations spécialisées et des interventions pour des personnes avec des troubles mentaux.
• Collaborer avec les services de police et de probation.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Mentoring

Communication

Negotiation

Education

Registered Social Worker with Social Work England

Job description

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Team Leader and Forensic Mental Health Social Worker, Preston

Client: Coventry City Council

Location: Preston, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: e3729597343f

Job Views: 4

Posted: 29.06.2025

Expiry Date: 13.08.2025

Job Description:

What is the job role?

We have various roles available in our Mental Health Team – this is an excellent opportunity to join us and make a positive impact in our diverse communities, ensuring the citizens of Coventry needs are met.

Due to the progression of existing staff and a substantive Team Leader being seconded to further training, we have fabulous and rare opportunities to join our Community Mental Health Team in Coventry as a Team Leader based at Swanswell Point.

Post one is a permanent and full-time post and will require you to be an Approved Mental Health Professional.

Post two is for an initial period of 6 months. As this is a secondment / fixed-term opportunity, applications from non-AMHPs will be accepted together with those who hold an AMHP qualification. This is an opportunity to experience and develop your management skills and knowledge.

Coventry is a growing, culturally and ethnically diverse city. Our Community Mental Health Team is a specialist multi-disciplinary team focusing on the needs of people living with the effects of 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.

We are looking for an inclusive leader who values diversity and promotes a culture of respect, collaboration and continuous improvement and who is committed to creating an environment where every individual feels valued and supported.

Forensic Mental Health Social Worker

You will work from Swanswell Point in Coventry and will help deliver a social work service for Coventry people who are subject to restriction orders under the Mental Health Act. This will also include people who live with a mental disorder and are at risk of criminal behaviours. The role will include liaison work with the Police, Probation, the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements panel, the Ministry of Justice and colleagues across mental health and adult social care services, including the regional secure units at Reaside Clinic, The Tamarind Centre and Ardenleigh.

You will be joining a newly formed and developing team and have opportunities for specialist training and development.

For an informal discussion regarding the above posts please contact Simon McGarry or

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).

Who are we looking for?

You will be a Registered Social Worker with Social Work England. You will have experience as a mental health practitioner in a CMHT or similar service with people who live with severe/ enduring mental health issues.

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.

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.

Our workforce data shows that people from minority ethnic backgrounds are under-represented at the management level and encourages applicants from these backgrounds to apply. This does not prevent individuals with or without other protected characteristics as set out within the Equalities Act from applying for this post.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page 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

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.