Service Manager (Mental Health)

Service Manager (Mental Health) – Intensive Community Rehabilitation Service 

Location: Little Bromwich Centre, Small Heath, Birmingham 

Salary: £35,203 per annum 

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week 

About the role: 

We are the leading provider of mental health services in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Our Vision is “Better Mental Health for All” and our values of Respect, Partnerships, Recovery, Wellbeing and Prevention are at the heart of what we deliver. Birmingham Mind has a well-earned reputation for excelling in quality delivery and plays a key role in supporting and influencing the wider mental health system across the city. 

Birmingham Mind believes in empowering citizens to have a voice in the delivery of their support and to be active in their communities and in the organisation. We have client involvement at every level of decision-making. 

The purpose of the Service Manager (Mental Health) is to deliver a high quality recovery-based service for people who are experiencing mental health. 

About you: 

You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary clinically led team within the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, directly line managing the Birmingham Mind Recovery Navigators. 

You will ensure that the Recovery Navigators use a person-centred recovery approach that focuses on developing, maintaining, and strengthening people’s skills and abilities. Working in close liaison and collaboration with the Clinical Team, to ensure that staff work as a team and utilise everyone’s skills and experiences. 

Encouraging the active involvement for service uses, you will ensure that support is focused on working with people and providing supervision appraisal for the Recovery Navigators. 

The successful candidate will work in a way that builds trust and hold a responsibility to share skills, knowledge, and experience across the service. 

We are looking for someone who has experience of management, particularly across the NHS or public sector. With excellent working knowledge of relevant legislation and the “Recovery Model” of mental health support, you will be an outstanding communicator with experience of managing mental health, either personally or professionally. 

This is a challenging yet rewarding role; one where you can be confident that you are making a difference in someone’s life and positively impacting individual growth. 

Benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, PayCare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme which includes free counselling and a comprehensive training programme. 

Our people are key to the success of the organisation, and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties. 

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 5 February 2025 

Interviews will be held on w/c 10 February 2025