What is the job role?
We are looking for highly motivated professional to join our Community Mental Health Team based at Swanswell Point in Coventry. The Team incorporates Community Mental Health Nurses, Approved Mental Health Professionals, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, and Clerical Staff.
The team supports people to co-produce recovery plans to enable better lives and to stay as independent as possible. All supports are person-centred, strength based and designed for people to have choice and control in their lives.
As a Mental Health Social Worker, you will also be involved in assessing, coordinating, and arranging care for people living with mental health concerns, both in the community and in hospital.
If you are an Approved Mental Health Professional, you will be required to undertake assessment’s under the Mental Health Act as part of the city wide AMHP rota.
For all posts, we operate a flexible / hybrid working week and you will be office based at least 2 days a week.
Keen to join the team? If you feel you fit the criteria then apply today!
To find out further information and for an informal discussion please contact Mat Bilbe by email at
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 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).
All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a Social Work England Registered Social Worker with a passion for promoting independence and aiding recovery from the effects of mental health disorders. (Please supply your registration number with your application).
The successful candidates will have:
1. Excellent assessment skills
2. Working knowledge of and application of MHA, MCA, The Care Act and Children’s Act
3. A working knowledge of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
4. Excellent risk assessment and management skills
5. Organisation, recording and workload management skills
6. Diplomacy, negotiating, listening skills.
7. Be able to work in collaboration with people with lived experiences, carers and colleagues.
8. To work as part of a team
9. Have autonomy and decision-making skills
10. Develop personal home treatment plans
11. Good IT skills
12. Have a vision for your own career development and future training
13. Resilience, flexibility, stamina and a great sense of humour!
In return you will benefit from:
14. Be welcomed in joining a highly professional and thoroughly hard working, friendly team
15. Group and individual professional supervision from the Team Leader / Team Manager / AMHP Lead within the team
16. Excellent in house and external training opportunities.
17. Opportunities to experience and present at various professional forums including our Pre-Court Legal Panel and AMHP Forums
18. Highly competitive salary with career development opportunities
Within our team LGBTQ+ and people from ethnic minority backgrounds are currently under-represented across our team/middle-management team, as a result we would like to encourage both LGBTQ+ and people from ethnic minority backgrounds to apply for this post. This does not prevent any other applicants with a protected characteristic or a non-protected characteristic from applying.
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:
19. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
20. Are currently in care or have previously been in care
21. 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):
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 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.