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Community Mental Health Team Manager
The closing date is 01 March 2026
This role combines clinical leadership and line management. The Community Team Manager role provides visible leadership in keeping with Trust values.
The Community Mental Health team provide a safe, caring and responsive, high quality service to service users aged over 65 who live in the North tyneside area. This service is for those people whose needs cannot be met in Primary care with associated complexity and risk requiring access to a dedicated MDT with clearly defined pathways of care. The manager will maintain a small clinical caseload, for which they are personally accountable and professionally responsible.
Main duties of the job
* The Community Team Manager role is responsible for the operational leadership and management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team and for clinical/managerial supervision of professional staff according to trust values.
* To ensure safe, caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers within the clinical environment by ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory requirements and Trust Policies, pathways, standard operating procedures and protocols.
* They will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of resources to ensure services users and carers needs are met, and monitor the team's contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the trust.
* The manager will maintain a small clinical caseload, for which they are personally accountable and professionally responsible.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job responsibilities
* Responsibility for leading and managing the staff team including development and welfare ensuring good communication and team working.
* Ensuring appropriate level of staffing to provide a safe service for users and staff.
* To provide clinical and managerial supervision and guidance to their Nursing team.
* To maintain an active clinical caseload for approximately 15 patients.
* Ensure all records are comprehensive and up to date.
* Monitor the record keeping of junior staff through supervision and weekly meetings.
* Establish and maintain effective communications with GPs, voluntary and statutory agencies.
* Monitor provision of caseloads, keeping colleagues informed of significant events.
* To establish nursing audit within your team.
* In conjunction with the Operating Service Manager (OSM) and Modern Matron, establish and maintain a high profile for the MHSOP.
* Develop and maintain good multi‑disciplinary team relationships.
* Provide the service manager with information on all matters directly relating to the postholder's area of responsibility and accountability.
* Recruitment and appointment of staff (Nursing staff and support workers).
* Attend meetings for senior staff and provide specialist advice and cascade information to junior staff.
* Complete appraisals with junior staff.
* Act at all times in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Actively participate in MHSOP duty system.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
* Previous post‑registration experience in elderly mental health care.
* Previous experience of working within a CMHT or similar service.
* Knowledge of government legislation, NICE guidance and best practice guidelines with regards to older people's mental health.
* Specialist knowledge of Local Authority policies and resources.
* Specialist knowledge and experience of older people with severe and enduring mental health issues.
* Experience of working to objectives, within a performance management framework.
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with current registration with Professional body.
* Educated to masters level or equivalent level of knowledge and / or experience.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students.
* Management and/ or leadership qualification or willing to work towards.
Other Requirements
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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