Assistant Team Manager

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Southampton is seeking an Assistant Team Manager to lead a team within New Forest CAMHS. This role involves supporting operational functions and working directly with children and young people facing mental health challenges. Candidates must be registered healthcare professionals with leadership experience. The position offers opportunities for training and career development within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Ongoing training and professional development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Registered professional with leadership experience.
• Educated to minimum diploma level with relevant qualifications.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload and support complex cases.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and management skills.
• Ensure effective risk management in the team.
• Provide oversight of team activity.
• Balance management demands with clinical work.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication

Risk management

Clinical oversight

Relationship building

Education

Relevant qualification or equivalent experience

Registered professional (NMC, HCPC)

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Team Manager

The closing date is 28 December 2025

Are you committed to leading and delivering quality driven mental health services?

Do you value working positively, respectfully and collaboratively?

Would you be interested in an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Assistant Team Manager within New Forest CAMHS?

If so and you are a registered mental health nurse, occupational therapist, psychologist, social worker, or other allied health professional with leadership skills and a passion for working with young people and their families, we would love to hear from you

As an Assistant Team Manager, you would spend 50% of your time supporting the operational functions of the team and 50% assessing and working with, a range of children and young people with complex and moderate to severe mental health difficulties. The service delivers a stepped care pathway model for access to evidenced based treatment for children and young people, according to their presenting needs including a Groups programme, 1:1 work and parent/family focused interventions.

In return we offer a service that has an excellent track record, and a commitment to robust evidence-based supervision and ongoing training, and is a service that is also focused on staff support and well-being. Training and development opportunities are available , including a New to Hampshire CAMHS induction programme, in house training and a commitment to ongoing CPD.

Main duties of the job

• To carry a clinical caseload, the management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases.
• Ensure effective risk management is present in the team.
• To demonstrate strong leadership and management skills
• To provide oversight of team caseloads and activity and ensuring the team functions in line with core business.
• To be able to balance the demands of management and clinical work
• To show initiative and innovative practice in an environment which is often busy and dynamic.
• Line Management and supervision of staff.
• To be an excellent communicator and show initiative in the compassionate leadership of a team which is innovative, creative and continually developing
• Performance monitoring and management.
• To deliver a service ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
• Deputising for the Service Manager in their absence
• Ability to build positive, trusting relationships with partners and other colleagues both internal and external to SPFT in the further development of our care pathways.
• Collaborate with your peers to drive positive change and creating a working environment where others can thrive.
• To coordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the service manager.
• To respond to SUIs as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
• To respond to complaints

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, combining the expertise and services of multiple NHS providers to deliver high-quality healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.With a dedicated workforce exceeding 12,000 staff and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we offer an extensive range of services, including mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health care, reaching diverse communities across urban, rural, and coastal areas.

We are committed to delivering care with compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, ensuring that our patients and service users are at the heart of everything we do. By working closely with our partners, we're creating a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that champions staff development, well-being, and collaboration. Join us and be part of an organisation dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare; where your skills and ambitions can make a real difference to the communities we serve, now and in the future.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone -- if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered professional (NMC, HCPC)
• Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of CPD

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust