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Job overview
Lead with purpose. Inspire others. Shape the future of children's mental health.
Are you an experienced mental health clinician looking to take the next step in your leadership journey?
Our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) Team Leader role offers an exciting opportunity to combine your clinical knowledge with operational leadership, supporting a skilled multidisciplinary workforce to deliver high-quality services across schools and education settings. Working alongside a supportive leadership team, you will play a key role in developing staff, driving service improvement, building strong partnerships and ensuring children and young people receive the right support at the right time.
If you're passionate about leading people, influencing change and making a lasting difference to children's mental health services, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST’s) are part of an exciting trailblazer project funded by NHS England, Health Education England & partners with the aim to improve the mental health & wellbeing of children & young people in the community.
- Responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the identified team, including patients, team activity, performance, safety & quality and staffing matters.
- To contribute to the delivery of the transformational change programme for the Children's Directorate, particularly through the development of a more integrated, multi-professional workforce.
- To support the delivery of child & family focused services, against agreed performance and quality targets and within budget, whilst delivering agreed cost improvements.
- Management of staff
- Contribute to effective partnership working with key external services, such as social care, the acute sector and key third sector organisations, to enable the delivery of shared outcomes.
- Provide day to day supervision and support for the defined team.
- Work closely with team leads across MHST to ensure delivery of the service vision.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of developing and maintaining monitoring systems to measure team performance or quality
- Experience of managing budgets, involvement in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of addressing equality and diversity issues within a service context
- Experience of working in children’s mental health services.
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior supervisory level
- Relevant qualification or significant experience in clinical children’s field - mental health, neurodevelopment, learning disability
- Registered Nurse RN/LD/MH/CN Social Worker/AHP (PgDip, MSc or equivalent)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Must be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate and present complex information to a variety of internal and external audiences
- Strong understanding of national policy in relation to health services for children and young people
- Good analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions from combinations of qualitative and quantitative information sources and present in a concise manner.
- Demonstrable capability to plan over short and medium term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Must be able to demonstrate an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across
- Ability to develop and implement innovative solutions, to problem solve and respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to manage poor performance
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This advert is for Team Leader Mental Health Support Teams with Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust in Coventry, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum. The contract type is Permanent: Full time. The application deadline is 13 Jul 2026.
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