Team Leader- Dementia and Older Adults

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

What is the job role?

This is a fabulous opportunity to join our Dementia and Older Adult Mental Health Service in Coventry as Team Leader based at Longford Primary Care Centre.

Coventry is a growing, culturally and ethnically diverse city. The Dementia and Older People Team is a specialist multi-disciplinary team focusing on the needs of people living with the effects of cognitive impairment and dementia and older people with a functional mental illness. The Team provides specialist assessments and interventions embracing the Care Act, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Safeguarding investigations and protection of human rights and civil liberties.

We work to a model embracing self-directed care, utilising strengths-based approaches, co-production and promoting independence. The team is multi-disciplinary, incorporating Community Mental Health Nurses, Approved Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Support Workers and clerical staff.  The dementia service is age-independent and works across all areas of our diverse city.

Your main duties will include the line management and professional governance of the Social Workers within the team, contributing to the AMHP Duty Rota both as an AMHP and Duty Senior, scrutinising applications for Community Care purchasing under The Care Act, chairing Best Interest Assessment meetings and helping oversee Safeguarding enquiries/investigations.

For an informal discussion regarding the post please contact Simon McGarry - simon.mcgarry@coventry.gov.uk 

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).

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Team Leader who is also an Approved Mental Health Professional. You will have:

• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to deliver high quality professional supervision.
• Working knowledge of and application of MHA, MCA, the Care Act and Children’s Act and protection of human rights.
• Organisational, recording and workload management skills
• Diplomacy, negotiating, listening skills.
• Ability to work in partnership with people, carers and colleagues, co-producing and securing positive outcomes for people.
• Ability to develop personal home treatment plans.
• Good IT skills.
• A vision for your own career development and future training needs.
• A proactive, creative, resilient and flexible approach to work, stamina and a great sense of humour!

In return you will:

• Be welcomed in joining a highly professional and thoroughly hard working, friendly team.
• Receive regular peer group and individual professional supervision from the Team Manager and our AMHP Lead.
• Receive excellent in house and external training opportunities.
• Be offered excellent career and development opportunities.
• Experience opportunities to attend and present at various professional forums including our Pre-Court Legal Panel and Approved Mental Health Professional forum.
• Be rewarded with a highly competitive salary, leave entitlement and benefits package.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

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

For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.

Interview date(s): 16th Decemeber 2024

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies