Clinical Team Manager

Job summary

Our service operates across four police custody suitesExeter, Barnstaple, Torquay, and Plymouthand the courts in Exeter, Plymouth, Newton Abbot, and Barnstaple, working with some of the most vulnerable individuals in our communities.

We are looking for a confident and compassionate leader who:

• Opportunity to lead a dynamic, values-driven service making a real impact
• Work within a supportive and innovative multidisciplinary team
• Influence and shape service development across Devon
• Access to ongoing professional development and leadership training
• Contribute to improved outcomes for individuals at critical points of need

Main duties of the job

About the Role

As Clinical Team Manager, you will provide strategic, operational, and clinical leadership to a diverse and skilled multidisciplinary team, including:

• Senior Mental Health Practitioners
• Support Time and Recovery Workers (STR Workers)
• Peer Support Workers

You will ensure the safe, effective, and compassionate delivery of liaison and diversion services, enabling early identification of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, and social vulnerabilitiessupporting individuals to access appropriate care, treatment, and support pathways.

• Provide visible, inclusive leadership across multiple sites and disciplines
• Oversee clinical governance, quality, and performance of the L&D service
• Support staff development, supervision, and wellbeing
• Build strong partnerships with police, courts, health services, and third-sector organisations
• Drive service improvement, innovation, and transformation
• Ensure compliance with national L&D standards and local priorities
• Manage operational delivery across a geographically dispersed service

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.