Clinical Teams Manager

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust; South Shields; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness Centre (SRH)

Libraries at hospital sites

Chaplaincy support

Care Co-ordinator for childcare

Job summary

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Team Manager for the Talking Therapies service in primary care. Lead a multidisciplinary team, deliver NICE-based treatments, and drive continuous improvement to provide high quality, patient-centered care.

You will supervise and develop staff, ensure safe, effective care, and work with internal/external partners to meet access targets and enhance service delivery for adults with common mental health problems.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a clinical setting with staff supervision.
• Experience delivering psychological therapies in primary care.
• Trained in CBT supervision and relevant therapy supervision.
• Able to conduct risk assessments within scope of practice.
• Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation and experience in clinical audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management for local locality team and supervise staff.
• Deliver NICE-based psychological therapies to adults 16+ in primary care.
• Lead service development, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Promote staff wellbeing and engagement within the team.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve access and outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Risk assessments

Therapeutic relationship

CBT supervision

Professional accreditation

Clinical audits

Education

High Intensity IAPT Course

Postgraduate qualification in psychology

Postgraduate diploma in CBT

Job description

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Teams Manager

The closing date is 24 November 2026

Do you want to join an innovativeservice delivering high-quality, evidence-based treatments in primary care forpeople with common mental health problems?

Do you have the clinical expertise todeliver effective interventions alongside the leadership skills to support anddevelop practitioners?

Do you want to be part of a teamdescribed as supportive, excellent, and amazing?

If so, this could be the opportunity foryou.

South Tyneside Talking Therapies is anaward-winning service and one of the highest performing services regionally andnationally.

We are seeking a passionate,values-driven Clinical Team Manager committed to delivering high-quality careand continuous improvement. You will be an inclusive and compassionate leader,fostering a positive culture where staff feel supported, valued, and able tothrive.

The role requires a proactive individualmotivated to shape service delivery, champion clinical excellence, and supportinnovation. You will play a key role in ensuring the service continues to meetnational expectations while maintaining a strong focus on patient-centred care.

As a Clinical Team Manager, you willlead by example, promote STSFT Values and Behaviours, support staff wellbeingand development, and help drive the service to be the very best it can be.

Main duties of the job

Thereis a strong commitment within the service to ensuring staff are supported toreach their full potential through high-quality clinical and managerialsupervision, structured development opportunities, and access to both internaland external training.

The CTMwill provide effective line management within a dynamic primary care settingand will play a key role in the ongoing development and operational delivery ofthe Talking Therapies service.

Coreresponsibilities include the provision of regular supervision, and performanceoversight to ensure safe, effective, and high-quality care.

You will demonstrate strong, engaging leadership skills,underpinned by experience in a leadership role, alongside a clear commitment todelivering safe, compassionate, and patient-centred care.

Staffwellbeing and development are priorities within the service. The post holderwill contribute to the Wellbeing Strategy Group, supporting the development andimplementation of initiatives that promote staff wellbeing, engagement, andretention.

Inaddition to leadership responsibilities, the post holder will deliver psychologicalinterventions as part of the Talking Therapies service, working collaborativelywithin a multidisciplinary team.

Therole requires a commitment to a holistic, recovery-focused model of care, withthe ability to work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to improve access, address population need and enhance service delivery.

About us

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 us. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via our Flexible Working Policy.

We offer our staff outstanding benefits.

• Fitness Centre (SRH)
• libraries at both hospital sites
• chaplaincy support
• access to a Care Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements

If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, wemay withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job responsibilities

• Thepost holder will be part of South Tyneside Lifecycle Primary Care Mental HealthService, which incorporates Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)and Child Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS).They will work with adults who have a range of common mental healthproblems in primary care using NICE high intensity treatment interventions suchas CBT, IPT, EMDR, CAT, Counselling for Depression. They will use traditionaland innovative treatment methods.
• To be accountable for the day to day management of alocality team, deployment and supervision of staff, and ensuring thecoordination of services provided, optimising the cost effective use of allresources
• Line management of the team, with overall accountabilityand responsibility for the delivery of all aspects of patient/client carethrough the provision of effective clinical and managerial leadership
• Will work with people with differentcultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should becommitted to equal opportunities
• To meet targets set nationally andlocally for access, recovery and waiting times
• To work as a member of the Lifecycle/IAPT Team in providing a Mental HealthService to service users with Common Mental Health Problems
• This includes the direct provision of NICE evidence based,outcome focused standards of care to service users aged 16+
• The service will be delivered from Community Bases as anintegral part of a stepped care model
• To lead, motivate and support the team approach todelivering new and innovative models of care for service users
• To lead a continuously improving service, by ensuringsystems are in place to support clinical governance, quality monitoring andon-going research and audit of practice
• Ensure systems and processes are in place to maintainpatient safety
• Facilitate the development of clinical expertise andpractice within the team
• To work autonomously, assessing individual patient/clientneeds, initiating investigations, determining a plan of care and initiatingappropriate holistic, research based health information and care
• To act as a resource for all members of the team, providingexpert advice concerning aspects of patient/client management.
• To be responsible for ensuring that agreed professionalstandards are reflected in practice and to have overall responsibility formonitoring the standard of care
• To improve the service users journey by increasing accessto assessment and appropriate care and treatment
• Work collaboratively with multi professional teams toensure practice is efficient, effective, evidence based and safe

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Skills and Competencies

• Full range of skills and competencies required to deliver relevant
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
• Trained in provision of supervision for CBT / relevant therapy
• Accredited with a professional psychological therapy organisation
• Completed clinical audits within a service

Other Requirements

• High level of enthusiasm and Motivation.
• Advanced communication skills
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
• Ability to work under pressure
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality
• Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, & in own personal and professional development and in supervision
• The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
• Car driver and/or ability and willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
• Fluent in languages other than English
• Experience of working with diverse communities and within a multicultural setting

Qualifications

• Qualification from High Intensity IAPT Course (Post Graduate Diploma or Degree) AND significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required OR a recorded/registered doctoral level qualification in clinical or counselling psychology/ post graduate qualification training in a psychological therapy which may be CBT or another IAPT appropriate evidence based therapy (i.e. IPT) to at least equivalent of a post graduate diploma AND significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required OR core profession such as RMN, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist AND significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner and demonstrating the competences as required.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health / benefits & employment systems
• Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
• Knowledge of child protection issues and other relevant legislation

Experience

• Experience of working in a Leadership role
• Experience in delivering Clinical Supervision
• Ability to offer consultation and advice to a broad range of professionals and work co operatively to deliver joint interventions with a range of providers
• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
• Ability to meet agreed/specified service targets
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Able to write clear reports and letters to referrers
• Experience with routine outcome monitoring
• Experience of teaching and liaising with other professional groups

Training

• Able to attend supervision training if not already trained, and other training as the post develops
• Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this

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.

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