Clinical Team Manager

NHS; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Team Manager to lead a community mental health team. The role involves managing day-to-day operations, ensuring service coordination and quality care for children and young people. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in mental health, leadership skills, and a commitment to enhancing community well-being.

Benefits

Access to high quality education and training

Flexible working opportunities

Childcare support

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration required.
• Experience in a leadership role supporting children's mental health is essential.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of a community team and ensure service coordination.
• Lead clinical governance, quality monitoring, and ongoing research.
• Promote patients' safety and well-being through effective team leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mental Health Assessment

Therapeutic Interventions

Education

Core Professional qualification in Nursing, Teaching, or Social Work

Postgraduate qualification in Child and Young People's Mental Health

Formal leadership training

Job description

Go back South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Team Manager

The closing date is 07 July 2025

Are you anexperienced Mental Health professional looking for a new opportunity if so,we are seeking to recruit to Clinical team managers as part of our wave 11recruitment drive in Sunderland.

The MHST worksacross designated schools in and across Sunderland supporting children andyoung people between the ages of 5 to 18 years in providing low-intensityinterventions, group work, and whole school approach activities. In addition, wealso offer training and advice and support.

If successfulyou will be based locally at the Hetton Centre and or Cleadon Park but can alsowork from/at CAMHS sites and the hubs.

If you have theskills, and essential qualification and are interested in this opportunity thenwe would very much like to hear from you. Informal discussions are mostwelcome.

Main duties of the job

52-week service

Monday toFriday 0900-1700

Please see JobSpecification for essential and desirable criteria

Car driver andaccess to a car essential

About us

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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for STSFT. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via the Trust's Flexible Working Policy.

The Trust employs around 8,300 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area, in some cases to a population as great as 860,000. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Childcare Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements. The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated.

Job responsibilities

To be accountable for the day-to-day management of a community team,deployment and supervision of staff, and ensuring the coordination of servicesprovided, optimising the cost-effective use of all resources

Line management of the team with overall accountability andresponsibility for the delivery of all aspects of patient/client care throughthe provision of effective clinical and managerial leadership.

To lead, motivate and support the team approach to delivering new andinnovative models of care for service users

To lead a continuously improving service, by ensuring systems are inplace to support clinical governance, quality monitoring and on-going researchand audit of practice

Ensure systems and processes are in place to maintain patient safety

Facilitate the development of clinical expertise and practice within theteam

To work autonomously, assessing individual patient/client needs,initiating investigations,

determining a plan of care and initiating appropriate holistic, research-basedhealth information and care

To act as a resource for all members of the team, providing expertadvice concerning aspects of patient/client management.

To be responsible for ensuring that agreed professional standards arereflected in practice and to have overall responsibility for monitoring thestandard of care

To improve the service users journey by increasing access to assessmentand appropriate care and treatment

Work collaboratively with multi professional teams to ensure practice isefficient, effective, evidence based and safe

This will be achieved by:

Listening to and understanding the community

Bringing people together to develop a shared localvision with service users as equal partners

Assessing community assets, resources, needs andissues

Empowering community members to identify localissues and articulate solutions

Linking in with Community Mental Health Services(i.e. CYPS, IAPT, CTT)

Co-producing an action plan to progress theaspirations of the community

Champion the community views in widerdecision-making forums

The post holder will ensure they uphold our Trust vision, values andbehaviours.

To promote at all times a positive image of children and young peoplewith mental health conditions.

To promote at all times a positive image of the specialist service areaand the wider Trust.

FOR FULL JOB DESCRIPTION SEE ATTACHMENT

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Core Professional qualification and registration (i.e. Nursing, Teaching (with qualified teacher status) Social Worker, Allied Health Professional) or appropriate professional qualification in Therapeutic Training such as CBT, IPT-A, EMDR, Counselling for Depression, CWP/EMHP (with appropriate registration) etc.
• Additional post graduate qualification in Child and Young Peoples Mental Health, therapeutic training, or other relevant area.
• Teaching qualification
• Higher degree in relevant area
• Accreditation with relevant therapeutic body.
• Formal leadership training, e.g Leading Empowered Organisations; IAPT Transformational Leadership Programme

Other requirements

• High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
• The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a developing service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service and with the wider health care system.
• Professional courage and curiosity when understanding and advocating for the needs of children and young people.

Experience

• Significant experience of working to support the mental health needs of children, young people and families.
• Experience of working within a community context.
• Significant experience in a Leadership role to support the mental health needs of children and families
• Experience of supervision and leading in the development of specific aspects of service delivery and people management.
• Extensive experience of working collaboratively within a multi-agency context.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training to a broad range of professionals.
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and using results to influence service improvement.
• Experience of critical incident review and lessons learnt.
• Experience in supervising professional colleagues from non-specialist backgrounds.
• Experience of working within Primary Care, or education settings.
• Experience of leadership of teams

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to complete comprehensive mental health assessments and plan, implement and evaluate specialist packages of acre for children, young people and their families.
• Skilled in the delivery of relevant therapeutic interventions including individual, family and group work,
• Ability to be a role model in terms of values, attitudes, and behaviours, in line with South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust organisational framework.
• Communication and organisation skills.
• Skilled in the delivery of clinical and caseload supervision.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training to a broad range of professionals.
• Ability to offer consultation and advice to a broad range of professionals and work cooperatively to deliver joint interventions with a range of providers.
• Ability to engage vulnerable and underserved groups.
• Knowledge and experience of safeguarding and the promotion of welfare in children.
• Ability to work at the complex interface between universal and specialist childrens service provision.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent time and caseload management.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft office and other associated IT packages.
• Evidence of being an effective leader.
• Evidence of being an innovator.
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve tight deadlines in a complex/changing environment.
• Be able to organise and prioritise own workload and that of the wider team.
• Clear concise record keeping, report writing skills.
• Understanding of the National healthcare agenda related to CYPMH
• Understanding of the principles of infection prevention and control.
• Understanding of complex commissioning in a context of local and national CYPMHS agenda.

Physical skills

• Combination of sitting, standing and walking is required.
• May be required to move and handle objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids.
• The post holder will be required to work flexibly sometimes working additional or unsocial hours as necessary to meet the needs of the service and ensure a complete understanding is had in relation to care delivery.
• Full UK driving licence with access to vehicle

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.

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust