Strategic Lead Mental Health

Grade SS1 £69,797 - £75,371

Location: Town Hall Extension, Manchester

Closing date: 1^st December 2024

Interviews: w/c 9^th December 2024

About The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Adult Social Care to recruit a strategic lead for adult mental health to work as part of our dynamic senior Leadership Team.

Adult Social Care delivers its services as part of the Manchester Local Care Organisation, a pioneering partnership between Manchester City Council and Manchester NHS Health organisations. This enables us to work better together, ensuring care is coordinated and resulting in a better outcome for Manchester citizens.

Manchester is modernising its mental health delivery model and welcomes applications from experienced social workers who have a strong evidence-based vision for improving outcomes for people we support in Mental health services.

About the Candidate

• Proud and passionate about Manchester and the adult social care/mental health sector
• A qualified Social Worker with a firm grounding in social care statutory functions, care act, MCA, safeguarding etc.
• A high level of understanding of the Approved Mental Health Practitioner and Best Interest assessor roles and challenges they currently face.
• A high level of understanding the challenges faced by Community Mental Health teams.
• Able to lead empathically in a culture of high support and challenge.
• Have an innovative, person centred and can-do approach to transformation.
• Experienced in leading and managing services with a high level of understanding of mental health, adult social care statutory service delivery, and legal literacy.
• Be able to deliver a programme of work at pace and co-produce with the workforce and people we support. Essentially bring people with you on this journey for change.
• Able to work collaboratively with commissioners and system partners including the VSCE to design and deliver best value provision with a keen focus on reablement and recovery.

This post will have a key leadership role supported by a transformation team in defining and delivering services that will support the maximisation of better mental health, independence, choice and control, enhancing the maximisation of prevention and alternatives to hospital admission where people in Manchester can thrive.

For more information and to apply: https://tinyurl.com/7d5253t6