Mental Health Team Manager - Social Care HEST76346

Lead a dynamic and passionate team.

Our client is a vibrant charity supporting adults and children in crisis. They are looking for a Team Manager for their Wandsworth Mental Health Rehabilitation and Recovery Service. They deliver support and interventions to 60 service users with mental health issues living in accommodation services across the Borough. The focus of the service is to provide medium to long term focused rehabilitation and recovery support to adults with complex and enduring Mental Health conditions.

The team cares deeply about delivering a high-quality service to all services users which means they can build on the success which has already set their service apart as a genuine and innovative service. If the above resonates with you and if you are looking for career progression in Mental Health, join the team to make your dream come true.  They welcome applications from candidates with lived experience.

Person specification:

• Demonstrable experience of managing accommodation-based support services for people with mental health and complex needs, knowledge of issues affecting those individuals
• Demonstrable experience of recruitment, induction, supervision, motivation, appraisal, training, discipline and grievance issues
• Experience of performance monitoring and delivering consistently high delivery standards and service user standards.
• Ability and experience of managing complex budgets and keeping within budget
• Excellent knowledge of Community Care, Mental health, Health and Safety and welfare benefits legislation (including welfare reform)
• Excellent level of spoken and written English
• Knowledge of methods of assessing, formulating, implementing, recording, reviewing and auditing service users’ support and safety assessment plans
• Good knowledge of MS Office
• Ability to write & interpret complex reports
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience of housing pathways, housing legislation and housing management experience including income collection from personal service charges and Housing Benefit.
• Ability to work flexibly including limited out of hours working during the evening, weekends / bank holidays
• Ability to complete and record accurate financial transactions and knowledge of managing budgets
• Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues and ability to address them appropriately.

In return they offer a competitive salary, a supportive working environment and a host of benefits including pension, employee discounts, 25 days holiday per annum (for full-time positions) plus the option to buy an additional 3 weeks, cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan.

Our client is proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you have any convictions/cautions, this does not mean you cannot apply for any of their roles, however they do require a DBS for all positions.

Hours: 39 hours per week, Mondays to Fridays (39 hours per week)

Closing date: 1 March 2019

Our client supports adults and children across London in times of crisis.

Last year they worked with more than 9,000 people, including victims of modern slavery, women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, young care leavers and older people. From giving someone a home to helping them to get the right mental health support, they support and enable people at the moment of crisis.

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