Strategic Lead, Mental Health

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Trafford Council Full time

**Trafford Council**

**Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford M21 0TH**

**Salary range - £55,296 to £61,101 per annum**

**Salary Band - SM4C**
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**Working Pattern -**
**Full Time**

**Working hours - 36.25 per week**

**Contract type -**
**Permanent**

**Application deadline - 5 February 2023**

**Interview date - TBC**

**Interview Panel: Emma Brown, Diane Eaton and Nathan Atkinson**

**Interview type - In person**

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**About the Role**

Trafford Council are committed to ensuring our Social Work identity in Mental Health services is strong. Social Workers bring something quite unique to the multi-disciplinary team, alongside our EPIC/Professional values and passion to uphold our residents rights and our outcome focused approach ensures that our people receive the right support at the right time.

We are seeking to recruit a Mental Health Strategic Lead to provide strategic, operational and professional leadership of social work and social care within Trafford Mental Health services which are managed by Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) to ensure the best possible outcomes for our residents, their families and carers.

**About you**

If you are an experienced Leader with a background in mental health social work this would be a great opportunity for you.

As a skilled team player, you will work alongside and compliment strategic and operational managers with the responsibility for managing social workers, AMHPs, the use of the Mental Health, MCA & DOLs and the Care Act.

Through forging positive working relationships, you will encourage innovation and implementation of partnership and a culture of close collaboration, working with other services to support the mental health agenda across Trafford and ensure mental health services continue to meet the needs of the population it serves.

You’ll also be able to demonstrate experience in setting and delivering strategic vision for better social work in mental health, managing and developing staff, and possess exceptional leadership qualities and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

**About us**

Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors have a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford’s huge potential.

**_Our vision: Trafford - where all our residents, businesses and communities prosper_**

Trafford really is a great place to work. We’re keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

**CONTACT DETAILS**

For an informal discussion, or to find out more about the role, please contact:

- Emma Brown _
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- or Claire Fraser _

**COUNCIL DETAILS**

**About the benefits**

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford.

**OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION**

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