Clinical Team Manager (Mmers) - Cfhd
Devon Partnership Nhs Trust
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Job summary
Devon Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Team Manager to lead the Mood, Emotions & Relationships pathway within Children and Family Health Devon. The role combines leadership with clinical expertise to supervise a multi-disciplinary team and drive service development, workforce planning and quality improvement.
Based in Devon, the post involves safeguarding children and improving outcomes for those with complex emotional health needs.
Qualifications
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
- Clinical practice with children/young people with complex health needs.
- Experience supervising staff and HR processes (appraisals, performance, sickness).
- Experience delivering care within an equality and human rights framework.
- Experience planning inter-agency meetings for tailored treatment plans.
- Experience involving service users as active partners in delivery/design.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day leadership and management for a MERs team.
- Supervise, support and develop staff through inclusive leadership.
- Contribute clinical expertise to assessments and care planning.
- Monitor performance, demand and capacity for safe service delivery.
- Collaborate with Operations Manager to develop pathways and improvements.
- Build relationships with families, schools, social care and partner agencies.
Skills
Education
Job description
Children and Family Health Devon is excited to offer the opportunity for a 1 wte (37.5 hours) Clinical Team Manager to join our Mood, Emotions & Relationships (MERs) pathway within Children and Family Health Devon.
This pathway supports children and young people experiencing moderate to severe mental health and emotional difficulties, including depression, anxiety, trauma, self-harm, emotional dysregulation and complex relational challenges.
As a Clinical Team Manager, you will combine leadership responsibilities with your professional expertise, overseeing a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and compassionate care. You will provide day-to-day operational management, professional supervision and support for staff, while contributing to service development, workforce planning and quality improvement.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your leadership career while continuing to use your clinical skills to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
- Provide day-to-day leadership and management for a multi-disciplinary MERs team
- Supervise, support and develop staff through compassionate and inclusive leadership
- Contribute clinical expertise to assessments, formulations and care planning as required
- Monitor performance, demand and capacity, ensuring safe and effective service deliveryWork closely with the Operations Manager and clinical leads to develop pathways and drive improvements
- Build strong working relationships with families, schools, social care and partner agencies
At Children and Family Health Devon, we are dedicated to improving the physical and mental health of children and young people across Devon and Torbay. We aim to create an environment where children and young people can thrive and are committed to reducing health inequalities and providing specialised support, empowering them to lead healthy, fulfilling lives.
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.
We are an alliance of NHS organisations led by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Devon Partnership Trust. We are a group of professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, nurses and many other professions.
With access to moors, sea and cities, there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy Devon. Whether you enjoy spending time in the cultural hub of Exeter, exploring the Jurassic coastline or discovering the world surfing reserve in North Devon there really is something for everyone.
Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: C9369-26-0786-1
Job locations: Children & Family Health, Shinners Bridge, Dartington, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6JD, United Kingdom; South Devon Healthcare, 187 Newton Road, Torquay, TQ2 7BA, United Kingdom
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
- Essential: Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
- Essential: 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
- Essential: Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
- Essential: Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management.
- Essential: Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework
- Essential: 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.
- Essential: Experience in involving service users as active partners in the delivery and or design of services
- Essential: Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement
- Essential: Experience of using data to improve services
- Essential: 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.
- Essential: Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
- Essential: The ability to work as an autonomous professional, to take on responsibility, make decisions under pressure and seek support as appropriate.
- Essential: Ability to review, analyse and report on information and key data relating to the teams performance, capacity or activity.
- Essential: The ability to plan and complete operational leadership tasks as directed and within reasonable timescales.
- Essential: Ability to develop and implement systems to manage capacity and demand - patient flow, staff workloads.
- Essential: A professional mental health qualification e.g. RMN, Social Work Degree, BSc/Diploma in OT, or equivalent.
- Essential: Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
- Essential: Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP
- Essential: Evidence of relevant CPD.
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.
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 the 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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address: Children & Family Health, Shinners Bridge, Dartington, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6JD, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
For questions about the job, contact: Operational Manager, Lindsey Eastlake, lindsey.eastlake@nhs.net
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