# Social Care Professional Lead / MH Social Work Service Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/social-care-professional-lead-mh-social-work-service-manager/0989661b-f11e-4506-89a6-6bd6ae1d6507 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/social-care-professional-lead-mh-social-work-service-manager/0989661b-f11e-4506-89a6-6bd6ae1d6507.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Social worker - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-09T13:47:48.934Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Mental_Health/Adult_Mental_Health-v8308154 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8308154?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a dynamic and highly experienced social work leader, seeking a new leadership opportunity? We are seeking a full time Social Care Professional Lead / Service Manager to join the team. You will provide professional social care leadership for staff, and work as a member of the multidisciplinary governance and management team arrangements within the Mental Health Directorate. The post is predominantly focused on adult services provision and will work in partnership across the interface of Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford Health services, working in partnership with third sector organisations (the Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership ‘OMHP) to develop services. The Service Manager will also be responsible for contributing to overall Directorate strategy/policy to ensure that the Directorate delivers its quality, people, finance, and performance objectives (in regard to the service they manage). ### Main duties of the job You will: - Work within the Mental Health Directorate Senior Management Team and Clinical Leadership to advise how Social Work and Social Care values, practice and statutory responsibilities are represented and integrated in the delivery of integrated health and social care adult MH services. - Perform a leadership role on behalf of the local authority in respect of safeguarding within the directorate working together with clinical and management teams to assure high quality safeguarding practice, undertaking audits of the directorate performance. - Take responsibility for advising and interpreting the parameters of Social Care policy to ensure that Social Care services are delivered safely and securely within statutory and legal frameworks. - Lead, analyse and judge highly complex data from designated investigations of complaints, Patient Safety Incidents (PSIs) to ensure organisational learning and service improvement. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive experience of the development of good relationships across stakeholders - Substantial experience of managing health and social care staff. - Management of key resources – staff, finance, performance, and information - Experience of working in multi-disciplinary settings. **Desirable** - Advanced Excel skills. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Social Work Degree Qualification - Evidence of Mental Health social care expertise. **Desirable** - Approved Mental Health Professional/BIA ### Aptitude and Skill **Essential** - Demonstration of well-developed and effective leadership skills. - Understanding of the principles of effective project management. ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Evidence of Leadership and motivational skills. - Ability to work with frequent exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances. - Evidence of negotiating skills in complex organisational processes. ## Documents - [mental health social work service manager (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10628212) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.