CMHT Team Leader

Dorset HealthCare; Bridport; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare is seeking a Band 7 Team Leader for Bridport Adult Community Mental Health Team. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, ensure safe, effective services, and role-model reflective practice.

The post combines clinical and managerial duties, maintains a small caseload, and requires strong governance, change management, and commitment to recovery-focused care.

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience, including community mental health.
• Strong knowledge of legislation, clinical governance, risk management, and adult mental health practice.
• Proven leadership and management skills, including supervision and performance management.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and decision-making abilities.
• A commitment to recovery-focused and socially inclusive practice.
• The ability to manage change and work effectively under pressure.
• A passion for supporting staff, improving services, and delivering excellent care to people with complex mental health needs is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe, effective, and efficient services.
• Lead with visible, supportive leadership and foster a culture of continuous improvement, reflective practice, and staff development.
• Maintain a small caseload of complex cases and make sound clinical judgments under pressure while supporting high standards of care.
• Engage with Primary Care Networks, Access Well Being and VCSEs to enhance service delivery.
• Ensure adherence to Trust policies, legislation and local authority requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Risk management

Communication

Decision making

Recovery-focused practice

Change management

Staff development

Organisational skills

Education

Registered professional

Job description

You will be responsible for the day-to-day operational leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient services in line with Trust policies, legislation, and local authority requirements. You will provide visible, consistent, and supportive leadership, acting as a positive role model and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, reflective practice, and staff development. You will support the team to enhance their skills, systems, and overall service delivery to meet the needs of service users and carers. The post combines both clinical and managerial responsibilities, requiring you to maintain a small caseload of complex cases, make sound clinical judgements under pressure, and support high standards of care across the service. The post is based at Bridport Community Hospital and expectation will be to engage with the Primary Care Networks, Access Well Being and VCSE's.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join Bridport Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) as a Band 7 Team Leader. This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a motivated professional who is passionate about delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care for adults experiencing serious mental health difficulties.

You will be an experienced, registered professional with:

• Significant post-registration experience, including community mental health
• Strong knowledge of legislation, clinical governance, risk management, and adult mental health practice
• Proven leadership and management skills, including supervision and performance management
• Excellent organisational, communication, and decision-making abilities
• A commitment to recovery-focused and socially inclusive practice
• The ability to manage change and work effectively under pressure

A passion for supporting staff, improving services, and delivering excellent care to people with complex mental health needs is essential.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people. We do things differently here – it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities. Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves. Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.