Clinical Team Manager for Crisis Assessment Unit & S136

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 7 Clinical Team Manager for the Crisis Assessment Unit and S136 service in Leeds. You will provide clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality, safe care in a dynamic environment.

The role emphasizes service transformation, governance, and collaboration with internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Must hold a recognised professional qualification (Nursing / Social Work / Occupational Therapy) and be educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Proven leadership and people-management experience in a healthcare setting.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the day-to-day operational functioning of the Crisis Assessment Unit and S136 service, providing clinical and managerial leadership.
• Oversee staff supervision, performance, and ensure compliance with Trust policies and standards.
• Collaborate with police, ambulance services, and community teams to ensure safe, effective care pathways.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Professional qualification (Nursing / Social Work / OT)

Degree level education

Job description

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Clinical Team Manager for Crisis Assessment Unit & S136

Band 7

Main area Acute Services - CAU & Police Pathways Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 173-50526-ACUTE

Site Becklin Centre Town Leeds Salary £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated clinician to undertake a a new role as a Band 7 Clinical Team Manager within the Crisis Assessment Unit and Section 136 service at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. At a time when the service is undergoing review and development, this role offers a unique opportunity to shape and influence future service delivery, contributing to improved outcomes for individuals experiencing mental health crisis.

Crisis Assessment Unit (CAU), which is currently operating as a 6-bedded acute female ward, ensuring safe, effective, and integrated care across the crisis pathway. The s136 suite, health based place of safety is attached to CAU and is a 2 bedded suite. As Clinical Team Manager, you will provide clear, visible leadership to a multidisciplinary team of nurses and health support workers, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality, responsive, and service user-focused service.

Working closely with the Clinical Operations Manager and wider senior leadership team, you will lead on clinical governance, service improvement, and the day-to-day operational management of the team within an evolving and demanding environment. The role requires strong leadership, sound clinical judgement, and the ability to effectively manage complex and high-risk situations, while maintaining a clear focus on quality, safety, and patient experience.

Main duties of the job

A key component of the role will be to work collaboratively alongside the Clinical Team Manager for the Street Triage Service, ensuring safe, effective, and integrated care across the crisis pathway. You will support cross-cover arrangements between services and play an active role within the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT), contributing to assessment, care planning, and decision-making across the whole pathway.

You will establish and maintain strong working relationships with a range of internal and external partners, including police, ambulance services, community teams, and the CRISS service, to ensure seamless care pathways and continuity of care across services.

This is an excellent development opportunity to enhance leadership skills, influence service transformation, and play a key role in driving forward innovation and best practice within crisis care provision.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead and manage the day-to-day operational functioning of the Crisis Assessment Unit and Section 136 service, including coordinating a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Provide clinical and managerial leadership, oversee staff supervision and performance, and ensure compliance with Trust policies and standards.

Work collaboratively with internal and external partners, including police, acute services, and community teams, to ensure effective communication, safe decision-making, and seamless care pathways. Contribute to service review, development, and quality improvement initiatives, while supporting staff in managing complex and high-risk situations to improve outcomes and service user experience.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Have a recognised professional qualification e.g. Nursing / Social Work / Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent.

Skills

• Be competent and confident, to provide expertise, advice, clinical and managerial leadership and role modelling to the teams they are working with.
• Develop and facilitate effective communication between the teams/services that are within the crisis pathway and beyond.

Experience

• Have experience in managing staff.
• Be able to demonstrate a broad range of administrative, clinical, managerial and leadership skills, for the post in question and evidence to support this.
• Be able to demonstrate effective working partnerships within a multi-disciplinary team, to achieve an integrated, effective and efficient service.

Knowledge

• Demonstrate strong leadership skills including planning, prioritisation, staff development and evaluation.
• Have a clear understanding of and commitment to the role of S136 & Street Triage services as defined in the service specification.
• Have an excellent understanding of mental health services, including relevant legislation.

Values

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
• Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
• Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.

The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.

All new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorize Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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