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.
- 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 an informal conversation about this post please contact Tracy Cullen at tracy.cullen@manchester.gov.uk.
In person interviews will be held week commencing 9th December 2024
We’re the local government authority for Manchester, and have teams across the city helping to make this a great place to live for everyone. We’re proud to do local government differently, in a city with an international reputation for diversity, creativity, culture and passion.
When you join us, you’re joining a team of over 7,000 council staff helping to make our ambition for Manchester a reality. Whatever your role, you’ll be supporting our residents and communities to be the best they can be, and helping to build a Manchester that's fairer for everyone who lives, works, volunteers, studies or plays here.
To make our ambition a reality, every person we recruit needs to play their its part. It takes a certain type of behaviour, attitude and way of working to get Manchester where it wants to be. Our people and partners have agreed five ‘behaviours’ – the grounding for how we must work together and treat one another:
- We take time to listen and understand
- We work together and trust each other
- We show that we value our differences and treat each other fairly
- We ‘own it’ and we’re not afraid to try new things
- We’re proud and passionate about Manchester
A career with us means you can be yourself, thrive, and build the career your talent and ambition deserve.
Creating an inclusive team at Manchester City Council
At Manchester City Council, we strive to create a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We want to further increase the diversity of our workforce, in particular the number of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and disabled staff at all levels of the Council. This advert is open to all applicants, and we would particularly encourage applications from candidates identifying with one or both of those characteristics.
If you want to find out more about the role, our ways of working, flexible arrangements or any workplace adjustments, please let us know by emailing jobs@manchester.gov.uk. If you are invited to interview, we will ask you if you require any adjustments for you to best demonstrate your suitability for the role in the interview process.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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