Team Manager Mental Health
MB4 (£43,693 - £49,764)
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Baker Street, Stockport Community Bases
Application Deadline: 11:59pm 12th February 2025
Shortlisting Date: 13th February 2025
Interview Date: 18th & 20th February 2025
Interview Type: In Person
Your Role
An exciting opportunity for a Community Mental Health Team Manager (Social Work) has arisen within Mental Health Services, based at Baker Street. We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our service area. We are currently recruiting for a full-time permanent Team Manager.
This role provides a unique opportunity to lead a team committed to delivering high-quality social work practice that is person-centred, community-based, and achieves positive outcomes for vulnerable adults with mental health problems and their families, in Stockport.
We’re looking for a qualified and experienced person with AMHP/BIA status or working towards it, who is ready to take the next step in their career and is passionate about adult safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults with mental health problems.
Key responsibilities include:
* Managing across the mental health, older adults and discharge social work teams to ensure effective practice and timely decision-making.
* Providing reflective supervision and professional leadership to maintain high standards and compliance with statutory requirements.
* Collaborating with multi-agency partners in the local Mental Health Trust to ensure adults with mental health problems receive the right support at the right time.
* Legally compliant with section 117 aftercare.
* Ensure the delivery of Stockport ASC policies and procedures.
* An excellent understanding and delivery of the mental health act.
About You
We are looking for somebody who:
* Is a team player and has a keen interest in achieving better outcomes for adults and promoting our ethos of Glorious Ordinary lives.
* Likes to support newly qualified and experienced social workers to develop to achieve the best they can, promoting positive practice in line with social work England standards and our local practice standards framework.
* Has good organisational skills.
* Has the ability to be creative with budgets and is good at problem solving.
* Can work collaboratively and lead teams with our 3rd sector colleagues and health colleagues to promote thriving lives.
About Us
The Mental Health Team promotes the health and well-being of our residents, looking to keep them safe and well while promoting the outcomes of glorious ordinary lives. We strive to keep people at the heart of decision-making and are continuing to grow and develop as a service. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to continue to develop our service to enable us to further improve our offer.
At Stockport Council, we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works, and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions, and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact for an informal discussion: Maxine White, Senior Service Manager (Mental Health Services) Maxine.White@stockport.gov.uk.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme, you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
Find out if you meet the criteria here.
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