Mental Health Deputy Manager - Southern Education Recruitment : Job Details

SER are currently working alongside a Mental Health Service based in the Braintree, Essex area who are currently seeking to appoint a Deputy Manager to join their team on a permanent contract. Therapeutic optimism is at the heart of all the work carried out by this Mental Health Service, believing all clients with mental health needs can achieve and make positive changes to their lives as they move along their pathway of recovery.

Position: Deputy Manager

Location: Braintree, Essex

Contract: Permanent - 37.5hrs per week (Mon - Fri 09:00 - 17:00)

Salary: £33,600pa

Closing Date: Monday 6th May 2024

Short Listing: On or before Tuesday 7th May 2024

Interview: Face to Face interviews will take place on 15th & 16th May 2024

About this role:

The role of the Deputy Manager is to assist the Manager in the day-to-day running of the service and to deputise for the Manager in their absence. There is also an expectancy of being part of the Essex on-call rota.

• The principal tasks of this position are given below; however, they do not represent an exclusive or static list of responsibilities. From time to time the job description will be reviewed and amended to reflect the changes in demands of the work.
• To help integrate the service internally and the wider local services network.
• To assist in managing the service to support staff to assist service users to move on and progress along their individual recovery path.
• To meet the needs of the Essex Service from 9am - 9pm across a 7-day week rota supported environment and you may be required to work different shifts patterns including weekends.
• To meet the needs of the service you will be required to carry out key work sessions with service users.

Essential Requirements:

• Good level of maths and written English
• Experience of working with people with Mental Illness and/or complex needs and substance and alcohol misuse.
• Experience in supervising/line managing staff with an awareness of good practice in staff supervision or recent completion of an appropriate training programme.
• Experience and ability to identify and manage high risk behaviours and liaise appropriately with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and external agencies
• Ability to work with the Multi-Disciplinary Team to identify support needs of service users and ensure that these are communicated to the wider staff team
• Ability to plan, manage and prioritise a high workload to meet deadliness
• Excellent communication skills - written and oral and negotiation skills

Applying for a role with this Service will open the door to joining an organisation that has been awarded, at excellence level, the Healthy Workplace Charter 2019 and retained its Mindful Employer Status for a further two years 2022 - 2024.

This Mental Health Service cares passionately about all aspects of their staff’s working life. This spans from how workers feel about their duties and providing them with meaningful work, giving their employees a voice in accepting and utilising feedback, to their working environment ensuring quality and safety of the physical environments for all, and finally a leadership team with a focus on its people.

If you would like to join this amazing team, please send your CV along with a cover letter.

This post is subject to the requirements of a six-month probationary period and satisfactory pre right to work checks.