Overview
Salary: £31364 – £49498 depending on experience
Shift hours: 37
This is a fabulous opportunity to join our Mental Health Teams in Coventry. We have several posts available:
- Team Leader
- Approved Mental Health Professional / Mental Health Social Workers, full and part time.
Coventry is a modern, growing, culturally and ethnically diverse City. The City has a worldwide reputation for Peace and Reconciliation. We are at the heart of the busy and industrial Midlands and yet surrounded by beautiful rural Warwickshire which is minutes away. Being well served by extensive road and rail networks, Coventry is easily accessed from most parts of the Country.
You will be supporting people living with a range of mental health challenges including psychosis, mood disorders, and self-harming behaviours. The Teams are fully multi-disciplinary and work towards specific interventions embracing strength-based recovery practices, Safeguarding, The Care Act, Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts.
Post: Team Leader: CMHT Swanswell Point
Salary: £42403 – £49498 dependant on skills and experience
- You will be based at Swanswell Point and lead a team of Social Workers and Community Case Managers
- You will provide line management, professional supervision, reflective practice and quality assurance.
- You will be an Approved Mental Health Professional or in training at stage 2 of the AMHP post graduate course.
Posts: Approved Mental Health Professional / Mental Health Social Workers
Salary: £31 634 to £49 498 (dependant on qualifications / skills and experiences)
- You will be based within the Community Mental Health Team at Swanswell Point and will help address the social determinants of mental ill health, including housing, debt management, substance misuse and recovery based activities with people on their ‘best life’ journey.
- You will be in partnership with people with lived experiences, facilitating and promoting independence.
- Working within the principles of the Care Act 2014, The Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act, you will support strength based practices within a least restrictive framework.
The Teams incorporate Community Mental Health Nurses, Approved Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Support Workers and Clerical Staff. Our Community Mental Health Teams are based at Swanswell Point in Coventry City Centre. The CMHT is divided into 3 groups covering all GP practices within the City.
Keen to join the team? If you feel you fit the criteria then apply today! To find out further information and for an informal discussion please contact Simon McGarry by email at simon.mcgarry@coventry.gov.uk or by phone on 024 7697 6256
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).
We are looking for Social Worker England Registered Social Workers with a passion for promoting independence and aiding recovery from the effects of disabling mental health disorders. The successful candidates will have:
- Excellent assessment skills
- Working knowledge of and application of MHA, MCA, The Care Act and Children’s Act
- The ability to recognise and investigate safeguarding concerns.
- A working knowledge of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
- Excellent risk assessment and management skills
- Organisation, recording and workload management skills
- Diplomacy, negotiating, listening skills.
- Be able to work in collaboration with people with lived experiences, carers and colleagues.
- To work as part of a team
- Have autonomy and decision-making skills
- Develop personal home treatment plans
- Good IT skills
- Have a vision for your own career development and future training
- Resilience, flexibility, stamina and a great sense of humour!
In return you will benefit from:
- Be welcomed in joining a highly professional and thoroughly hard working, friendly team
- Group and individual professional supervision from the Team Leader / Team Manager / AMHP Lead within the team
- Excellent in house and external training opportunities.
- Opportunities to experience and present at various professional forums including our Pre-Court Legal Panel and AMHP Forums
- Highly competitive salary with career development opportunities
Please note your application form will be shortlisted during the period of the advert and if you are successful you will be invited to attend an interview.
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’
Interview date(s):
Reference: coventrycc/TP/194/9559
