Service Manager - Integrated Mental Health Services in South West England
Posted by Leaders in Care
Salary: £52,000–£58,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time (37 hours per week)
- Older People’s Mental Health Team
- Working-Age Adults Mental Health Team
- Early Assessment / Early Intervention Team
This is a senior leadership role for a registered Social Worker who is passionate about improving outcomes for people accessing secondary mental health services. You will lead teams to deliver coordinated, high-quality, legally sound social work practice within an integrated health and social care setting.
Working closely with health-service partners, you will build effective relationships across organisational boundaries while ensuring strong social work leadership, professional standards and statutory accountability.
The role:
You will provide visible, supportive leadership across the service, enabling practitioners to develop their expertise and deliver confident, person-centred practice. The teams are office-based, supporting a collaborative working environment, shared learning and accessible management support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing three community mental health social work teams.
- Supporting practitioners to build on their individual skills, experience and professional expertise.
- Providing oversight of complex professional, safeguarding and statutory social work matters.
- Driving high standards of quality, performance, governance and assurance.
- Managing staffing, HR matters, budgets and workforce planning.
- Supporting effective roster and resource-management arrangements.
- Promoting strong clinical, professional and social work governance.
- Producing and contributing to quality and performance reporting.
- Leading service improvement and helping shape integrated mental health pathways.
- Working as part of the wider senior leadership team, responding flexibly to service priorities.
About you:
You will be a credible, values-led Social Work leader with experience of managing services within mental health, adult social care or an integrated health and care environment. You will bring:
- A compassionate and inclusive leadership style.
- Strong knowledge of adult social care, mental health legislation and statutory responsibilities.
- Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary or integrated teams.
- Confidence handling complex professional practice issues and organisational change.
- The ability to think strategically while remaining connected to frontline practice.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust with staff, partners and stakeholders.
- A genuine commitment to improving systems, strengthening practice and achieving better outcomes for people who use services.
This is an opportunity to play a central role in developing integrated community mental health services and supporting skilled practitioners to deliver excellent social work.
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