Job Title: Deputy Team Manager
Team: North Adults Community Mental Health
Hours: 37hrs per week
Grade: J scp 35 £43,421 to scp 39 £47,423
Contract: Permanent
Please note post holder must be Social Work England Registered
The Role
The North Adult Community Mental Health Team is looking to recruit a Deputy Team Manager for social work who has experience of working with Adults with Mental Illness in addition to high standards of leadership and management skills.
Prior experience of working within Adult Mental Health services and AMHP qualification is desirable.
The post holder will support the Greater Manchester mental Health (GMMH) Team Manager, in accordance with the existing Section 75 agreement, to lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams covering the Bolton area in addition to taking a professional lead for Social Workers within the service, working with the Head of Mental Health Social Work to maintain and further develop professional leadership and supervision within the service.
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About You
The post-holder will have a key role around leadership on practice within the team and will support the GMMH Team Manager in managing and daily co-ordinating the Community Mental Health Team.
In supporting the team manager, the post-holder will be responsible for ensuring that the team works cohesively and meets its objectives in the most effective and efficient way. The post-holder will also support the manager in ensuring the full implementation of the Care Act 2014, the Mental Capacity Act and the Care Programme Approach. In the absence of the manager, the post-holder will deputise on their behalf.
The post-holder will take responsibility for supervision of the work of the various workers within the team and ensure that that the practice and standard of work is consistently high and meets the requirements of the Local Authority, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust and other partnership bodies. In addition, the post-holder will act as co-worker to support staff with service users who have complex needs and to support and lead staff with complex legislative processes, such as Court of Protection proceedings and other complex Care Act related issues.
The post holder will offer clinical and managerial supervision to staff within the team, taking responsibility for social work supervision specifically, but not exclusively and ensuring that the practice of workers is of a consistently high standard and reflects the protocols and guidelines developed both locally and nationally. In particular, the post holder will lead on social work development, supervision and practice within the Older Adults service.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
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