Team Manager

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Team Manager to lead our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in the Grantham locality. This role involves overseeing the day-to-day operational management, providing strong leadership, and driving the ongoing development of a multi-disciplinary CMHT that supports working-age adults with complex mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Service Manager in delivering effective day-to-day management of the multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). As part of the Grantham Locality Mental Health offer, the post will work in close collaboration with the Integrated Place-Based Team Senior Mental Health Practitioner (SMHP) to ensure a seamless and coordinated service for service users.

Main responsibilities of the role will include:

Embedding clinical pathways, based on recovery principles, to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care for individuals with mental health needs, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, procedures, and values.

Provide clear leadership for the team, while monitoring service performance and quality to ensure robust quality assurance processes are in place, enabling the delivery of a safe, high-quality service.

A core responsibility of the role is to coordinate multidisciplinary collaboration and maintain strong communication between internal teams and external partners.

You will ensure a smooth interface and continuity of care across services, promoting joint working and integrated support and interventions at the right time, in the right place, with the right provider for service users.

You will have line management responsibility and promote regular supervision and appraisal within the team, fostering staff development and promoting wellbeing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a high standard of clinical care in one’s own practice and the team’s practice.

To embed the principles of ‘no wrong front door, ‘no cliff edges’, co-production and personalised care and support

To lead on the step-up, step-down approach, engaging with Primary Care and the VCSE sector

Be an active attendee of local partnership groups

To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.  Supporting the move away from CPA to personalised care.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

Please refer to the Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities of the job.