# CMHT Team Leader > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cmht-team-leader/81ac317d-dfed-47da-ba0b-b0a32f017428 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/cmht-team-leader/81ac317d-dfed-47da-ba0b-b0a32f017428.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Poole - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday 9-5pm) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-24T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-23T12:40:39.024Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Dorset/Wimborne/Dorset_HealthCare_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Community_Mental_Health/Adult_Community_Mental_Health-v8178199 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8178199?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join Wimborne Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Band 7 Team Leader. This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a motivated professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care for adults experiencing serious mental health difficulties. You will be an experienced, registered professional with: - Significant post-registration experience, including community mental health - Strong knowledge of legislation, clinical governance, risk management, and adult mental health practice - Proven leadership and management skills, including supervision and performance management - Excellent organisational, communication, and decision-making abilities - A commitment to recovery-focused and socially inclusive practice - The ability to manage change and work effectively under pressure A passion for supporting staff, improving services, and delivering excellent care to people with complex mental health needs is essential. ### Main duties of the job You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient services in line with Trust policies, legislation, and local authority requirements. You will provide visible, consistent, and supportive leadership, acting as a positive role model and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, reflective practice, and staff development. You will support the team to enhance their skills, systems, and overall service delivery to meet the needs of service users and carers. The post combines both clinical and managerial responsibilities, requiring you to maintain a small caseload of complex cases, make sound clinical judgements under pressure, and support high standards of care across the service. The post is based at Oakley House in  Wimborne and expectation will be to engage with both Primary Care Networks, Access Well Being and VCSE's. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post. We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role. All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements.  Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application. As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Recent experience within a community CMHT role at band 6 or demonstrate transferable experience - Able to demonstrate specialist knowledge in clinical assessment, treatment and care for people's mental health - Demonstrable knowledge of legislation relevant to area of practice - Evidence of risk management skills and experience - Able to demonstrate innovative practice ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Practitioner (Nursing, Allied Health Profession, Social Work) - Evidence of Leadership/Management Training **Desirable** - Learning and Assessing in Practice or equivalent practice educator training ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Able to communicate effectively at different levels of an organisation in both verbal and written form, for example with staff, patients, visitors or external organisations in the exchange of very highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, which will require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills. - Evidence of skills in diplomacy, negotiation and influencing - Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards an service improvement - Inquisitive and eager to learn. Seeks ways to improve self and others. ### Managerial / Leadership Skills **Essential** - Evidence of proactive involvement in supervision and development of members of the multi-disciplinary team - Demonstrable ability to prioritise effectively - Able to promote the best use of available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment **Desirable** - Experience of budget management - Management/Leadership Formal Training/Qualification ## Documents - [dbs information (pdf, 22.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2340) - [staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 316.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=695) - [pay scales from 1 april 2025 (pdf, 44.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1941) - [applications recruitment flowchart (pdf, 434.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=866) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 173.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10481165) ## 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.