Community Manager jobs in United Kingdom

About the Role As Team Manager, youll lead with empathy and vision, fostering a culture rooted in recovery, strengths-based support, and rights-based practice. Youll guide your team to deliver flexible, creative interventions that empower individuals to maintain independence and thrive in their communities. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing visible, accessible leadership and real-time performance management.
• Driving quality improvement and change management initiatives.
• Collaborating across the wider health and social care system to deliver joined-up support.
• Inspiring your team to deliver gold-standard care through shared values and professional development.

Were committed to your growth too with ongoing supervision, training opportunities, and support from both the Local Authority and AWP.

About the Role As Team Manager, youll lead with empathy and vision, fostering a culture rooted in recovery, strengths-based support, and rights-based practice. Youll guide your team to deliver flexible, creative interventions that empower individuals to maintain independence and thrive in their communities. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing visible, accessible leadership and real-time performance management.
• Driving quality improvement and change management initiatives.
• Collaborating across the wider health and social care system to deliver joined-up support.
• Inspiring your team to deliver gold-standard care through shared values and professional development.

Were committed to your growth too – with ongoing supervision, training opportunities, and support from both the Local Authority and AWP.

About Bath and North East Somerset Council. Working at Bath and North East Somerset provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.

At Bath & North East Somerset Council we have one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives.

This post attracts a welcome payment of 5% of the starting salary for the grade to enable individuals to join our permanent workforce. This is payable upon successful completion of your probationary period and is subject to eligibility criteria.

Make a Difference Every Day – Lead with Purpose in Mental Health Care

At Bath & North East Somerset Council, our mission is simple yet powerful: to improve people’s lives. We’re looking for a passionate, forward-thinking leader to join our Older Age Community Mental Health Team – a team that’s transforming how we support older adults with complex mental health needs and dementia. If you’re ready to lead with compassion, drive innovation, and champion person-centred care, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

Do you want to…

• Be part of an innovative and enthusiastic integrated mental health team?
• Deliver high-quality services that support older adults with complex mental health needs and dementia?
• Work in a team that embraces a person-centred, strengths-based approach?
• Champion the role of social work and social care in an integrated mental health setting, using your leadership to shape and grow the profession?

About the Team

We’re proud of our recently transformed Older Adult Community Mental Health Team, developed in line with the Community Mental Health Framework. This specialist pathway supports older adults with functional mental health needs and neurodegenerative disorders, where the impact on wellbeing and independence is significant.

Our team is dynamic, multidisciplinary, and deeply collaborative. You’ll work alongside Senior Practitioners from both the Local Authority and the Mental Health NHS Trust, united in our goal to achieve the best outcomes for people in our community.

About the Role

As Team Manager, you’ll lead with empathy and vision, fostering a culture rooted in recovery, strengths-based support, and rights-based practice. You’ll guide your team to deliver flexible, creative interventions that empower individuals to maintain independence and thrive in their communities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing visible, accessible leadership and real-time performance management.
• Driving quality improvement and change management initiatives.
• Collaborating across the wider health and social care system to deliver joined-up support.
• Inspiring your team to deliver gold-standard care through shared values and professional development.

We’re committed to your growth too – with ongoing supervision, training opportunities, and support from both the Local Authority and AWP.

This role is based in Bath and North East Somerset – a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its stunning architecture, vibrant culture, and beautiful countryside. With excellent transport links, staff parking, pool cars, electric charge points, and secure bike facilities, commuting is easy and flexible.

Interested?

If you’d like to learn more or have an informal chat about the role, please contact Christina Jefferies, AWP Service Manager, on 07761 447049 or Christina.Jefferies@nhs.net.

Interview date: TBC No Agencies Please

Please note: BANES Council operates a policy of prior consideration for individuals on the Council’s at-risk register (redeployees). If a redeployee meets the essential criteria, they will be considered ahead of external applicants.

Please note that this advert may close earlier than the stated closing date due to high demand. We advise all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.