CAMHS Strengthening Families Team Manager

NHS; Bradford; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare trust is seeking a Team Manager for the Strengthening Families CAMHS team in Bradford. The role involves leading a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring high-quality mental health services for children and adolescents, and supporting team member development. Ideal candidates will have a strong operational management background, at least 2 years of experience in mental health, and must be a registered nurse with current NMC registration. This position presents an opportunity to make a significant impact on young people's lives through leadership and innovation in care.

Benefits

Increased mileage rates for > 3500

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing teams effectively.
• Experience working in mental health or children's settings for at least 2 years.
• Registered Nurse – Mental Health or equivalent qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team providing mental health services.
• Support team development through performance management.
• Ensure best practices in child and adolescent mental health care.

Skills

Leadership skills

Strong operational management

Team motivation

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration

Post registration qualification relevant to child mental health

Job description

Job summary

The Strengthening Families CAMHS team works directly into the Children and Family's Trust Strengthening Families team, working with social care colleagues to support children on the edge or care or where there are plans for reunification with their family. The CAMHS team are small multi-disciplinary, including Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and Family Therapists. The team sits under the Children in Special Circumstances Portfolio.

This is a unique opportunity to lead and support change within a team that is currently undergoing transformation. Alongside the clinical leadership and service management you will lead service development, working with enthusiastic, experienced and skilled practitioners. The role requires a values-led practitioner, with strong operational management and leadership skills. You will work closely with colleagues in the management team to lead clinically led service wide quality improvement and provide a psychologically safe environment for staff to enable them to deliver the best quality care.

Closing- 4th January 2026

Shortlisting- 5th January 2026

Interview- TBC

Main duties of the job

The role will require you to lead your people and effectively communicate, being able to judge a situation and support your staff and management colleagues. You will work to ensure your teams are motivated, engaged and resourced effectively whilst supporting the strategic goals of the organisation and the objectives of your teams.

You will set performance targets and continually review progress by creating action plans to improve performance, finding solutions to problems and develop and drive continuous improvement strategies.

The post holder will provide leadership, managerial and supervisory responsibility for a group of practitioners working as a multidisciplinary team providing specialist child and adolescent mental health services.

Key partnerships include the Children and Families trust, adult mental health services, learning disability services, social care, education, consultation to Primary care colleagues, other providers of support within the Thrive Framework across the district.

This is an excellent opportunity to really make a difference to young people's lives across the Bradford District.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care – We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen – We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver – We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

Right to Work in the UK

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.

Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trust’s eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.

As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right‑to‑work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right‑to‑work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.

Ensuring that the teams are working effectively to deliver the best possible mental health assessment and treatment for Children and Young people, the Team Manager will be the point of focus for all people‑related management within the team and be confident and experienced at both managing people at a personal and organisational level.

A demonstratable proven track record of operational management and delivering strong results through a team in a leadership role is essential. You will also have the ability to challenge decisions and behaviours to ensure consistency in healthcare delivery to our service users.

Person Specification

Qualifications – Essential

• Registered Nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration (which must be maintained) as Registered Nurse – Mental Health or clinical psychology, social work, medicine, and occupational therapy
• 2 years experience working in Mental health/Children Settings

Qualifications – Desirable

• Post registration qualification relevant to the field of child and adolescent mental health, for example ENB 603, AMP, therapeutic qualification, and management studies (health related)
• Previous management experience

Experience – Essential

• Experience of Supervision/project management

Experience – Desirable

• Experience of Budgets/finances/change management

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Job Details

Date posted: 19 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year Per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 3 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time

Reference number: 453-25-7676171

Job locations: Bradford District and Airedale/ Craven

Bradford CAMHS

BD7 1LG

Employer details

Employer name: Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Bradford District and Airedale/ Craven

Bradford CAMHS

BD7 1LG

Employer's website https://www.bdct.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/