Deputy Service Manager - Mental Health

Deputy Service Manager - Mental Health

LOCATIONS: Sutton

SALARY: £31,186.90 per annum

DURATION:Temp to Perm

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week

(9am - 5pm two days a week | 10am-2pm or/and 2pm to 10am three days a week)

Daily Duties

• Take a lead role and provide support and advice to staff in creating and reviewing robust risk assessments, produce and agree management plans, personalised recovery support plans (identifying goals and aspirations and detailing activities and interventions) and structured move-in plans with new residents.
• Take a lead role and provide support and advice to staff in assessing new service users, liaise with professionals, other Mental Health placements and hospitals and prepare management plans for individuals prior to admission to the service.
• Support individuals to achieve their goals and aspirations through individual key work, targeted recovery outcomes-focused interventions and person-centred planning.
• Organise monthly key worker sessions with individual clients, using Recovery Star, WRAP and other person-centred planning tools. These sessions will focus on Mental Health insight, awareness and resilience, medication management including self-medication, as well as symptom management, including coping strategies and self-management techniques. Key workers will also help clients create their own advance directives and advance statements.
• Plan, organise, timetable and lead a range of appropriate groups, e.g. managing Mental Health, living skills, nutrition, assertiveness skills, confidence building, mindfulness, stress management, relapse prevention.
• Organise a rota of activities and events for service users, including contribution to the flexi approach to team work.
• Supporting service users in preparing for independence, through:
• Helping them maintain and develop their skill base, (re)gain general IT skills, including providing particular support with CV writing, online applications, shopping online, etc.
• Identifying and helping to facilitate suitable move-on accommodation and support and actively engaging family/carers and wider networks in preparing for the transition according to the wishes of the service user.
• Providing advice on benefits, tenancy rights or signposting when necessary.
• Facilitating access to training or/and employment and supporting employers, especially during initial stages. Providing a direct link between service user and any placement/work opportunities and ensuring that any problems are addressed at an early stage and that necessary measures are put in place to prevent placement failures.
• Make a positive contribution to and work constructively within the team, including developing your own abilities to enhance team performance.
• Carry out staff supervisions and monitor the performance of team members, including relief staff, in a constructive, effective and creative way.
• Contribute to the provision of outcome defined evidence to commissioners and other stakeholders, by fully involving service users and team members.
• Promote, monitor and maintain health and safety and security in the workplace and ensure the building in safe and secure.
• Work in a way that ensures the service is delivered in compliance with relevant legislation, values, policies and practices and contractual requirements.

Essential requirements

• DBS within the last 12 months (must have original copy)
• Previous management / team leader experience
• Demonstrable experience supporting those with complex Mental Health conditions.

For more information on this role please contact Emily Rex on