# Deputy Team Leader > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-team-leader/d48da1c0-50f5-4cf0-8aa1-0abc2a076dae - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-team-leader/d48da1c0-50f5-4cf0-8aa1-0abc2a076dae.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Guild Lodge - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Team leader - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (full time) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T13:50:51.671Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8377792 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8377792?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader to join their well established team. The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to Adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and significant others. The role involves working as a Deputy team leader in a well established team, this includes acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses and needs as well as assisting the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning and monitoring of care given to service users while actively promoting teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community As a keyworker you will work closely with people in there own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents. Along side becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role. ### 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 ### Knowledge **Essential** - An understanding and awareness of the NHS Plan, NSF and other relevant documentation - Knowledge of severe, enduring and complex mental health problems and risk assessment used in relation to these - Ability to manage time and workload ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of supervision and management of staff - Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team - Experience of assessing, planning and implementing and reviewing care needs ### Qualifications **Essential** - Core professional registration as Registered Mental Health Nurse or state registered O.T or S/W qualification - On-going registration with professional body - Post registration / post grad qualification or equivalent level in skills and development ## Documents - [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256) - [job description and personal specification (docx, 370.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10706274) ## 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.