Clinical Team Manager

Devon Partnership NHS Trust; Barnstaple; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is seeking a Band 7 Clinical Team Manager to oversee the Mood, Emotions, and Relationships Pathway within Children and Family Health Devon. This full-time role involves operational leadership, team supervision, and ensuring high-quality mental health care for children and young people. Join a supportive team dedicated to improving health outcomes and fostering professional development.

Benefits

Regular supervision and training opportunities

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes.
• Experience of delivering clinical practice for children with complex health conditions.
• Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and management for the MERs team.
• Supervise and support a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians.
• Develop and implement treatment plans ensuring timely, effective care.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Team Management

Clinical Assessment

Inter-agency Collaboration

Education

Professional mental health qualification (e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree)

Post graduate diploma in supervision and/or leadership skills

Job description

Location: Barnstaple, EX31 3UD
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 20th May 2025
Closing date: 3rd June 2025

We are excited to be recruiting a Band 7 Clinical Team Manager to join our Mood, Emotions, and Relationships Pathway within Children and Family Health Devon. This full time role is based in North Devon, supporting the delivery of high-quality, integrated mental health care for children and young people experiencing difficulties with mood, emotions, and relationships.

You will be joining a strong, enthusiastic, and supportive team, benefiting from a collaborative working environment that fosters professional development, peer support, and service innovation. This is an exciting time to be part of CFHD, as we continue to develop our new pathway model, integrating services to improve outcomes for children and young people.

As Clinical Team Manager, you will provide operational and clinical leadership, ensuring the effective day-to-day management of a multi-disciplinary team, overseeing care delivery, workforce management, and service development. We also recognise the importance of maintaining clinical practice and are happy to support the successful candidate in retaining a clinical caseload alongside CPD opportunities to enhance professional development.

We offer:

• Regular supervision, training, and CPD opportunities to support professional growth.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment, where innovation and improvement are encouraged.

Main duties of the job

• Provide operational leadership and management for the MERs team, ensuring the effective delivery of care and treatment.
• Supervise and support a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, including nurses, therapists, psychologists, and support staff.
• Oversee team performance, ensuring service delivery meets clinical standards, quality benchmarks, and performance targets.
• Develop and implement treatment plans, ensuring care is delivered in a timely, effective, and evidence-based manner.
• Support recruitment, training, and workforce development, ensuring the team is well-resourced and supported.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding policies, maintaining a safe and responsive service for children, young people, and families.
• Work in partnership with other services, including CAMHS, education, social care, and voluntary sector organisations, to ensure a coordinated approach to care.
• Contribute to service improvement, shaping the development of the MERs pathway to meet the needs of the local population.

If you are a motivated and experienced mental health professional, passionate about leading teams and improving services for children and young people, we would love to hear from you.

About us

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth, Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Job responsibilities

Further information on the role and the full person specification can be found on the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience of delivering a clinical practice within the area of specialty for children with complex health conditions - undertaking specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people with complex health problems
• Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
• Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management.
• Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
• Experience in involving service users as active partners in the delivery and or design of services
• Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement
• Experience of using data to improve services

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Specialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, highly complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children/young people and families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the service, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the audience.
• Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
• The ability to work as an autonomous professional, to take on responsibility, make decisions under pressure and seek support as appropriate.
• Ability to review, analyse and report on information and key data relating to the teams performance, capacity or activity.
• The ability to plan and complete operational leadership tasks as directed and within reasonable timescales.
• Ability to develop and implement systems to manage capacity and demand - patient flow, staff workloads.

Qualifications

• A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree, BSc/Diploma in OT, or equivalent.
• Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
• Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP
• Evidence of relevant 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.