Deputy Team Leader

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader for the CAMHS community team based at South Stoke CAMHS in Blurton. The role is full time and permanent, with duties supporting the Team Leader and providing clinical leadership within the team.

You will run day-to-day operations, participate in triage meetings, deliver initial assessments, and ensure delivery of therapeutic interventions while liaising with partner agencies.

Qualifications

• Experience in CAMHS must be demonstrated.
• Experience of working therapeutically in CAMHS at Band 6 level is desirable.
• Knowledge of CAMHS Clinical Pathways is beneficial.
• Knowledge of mental health assessment for children and young people is important.

Responsibilities

• Support Team Leader in day-to-day operational and clinical delivery of the CAMHS Team.
• Deputise in the absence of the Team Leader.
• Embed clinical pathways within CAMHS teams and develop links with care providers and partner agencies.
• Deliver specified therapeutic interventions and liaise with professionals on progress and outcomes.

Skills

Experience in CAMHS

Leadership & team coordination

Clinical triage & assessments

Job description

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Deputy Team Leader

The closing date is 12 November 2026

The North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust are looking to recruit to a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader vacancy. The post is full time and permanent.

The posts will be based at South Stoke CAMHS in Blurton.

The successful postholder will:

• Support the Team Leader in the day to day running of the community mental health team, offering support and advice to the wider team.
• Work as part of the leadership team within the CAMHS community mental health team under direct/indirect supervision of the Team Leader.
• Take part in multi-disciplinary triage meetings reviewing referrals received to the team.
• Complete initial needs assessments as needed with newly referred patients and offer oversight and guidance to core team members.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver specific therapeutic interventions to this group of patients and liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes.
• To ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this.
• To liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory and to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.

Job responsibilities

• To support Team Leader with the day to day operational and clinical delivery of the CAMHS Team.
• To deputise in the absence of the Team Leader.
• To work alongside the Team Leader and Clinical Pathway Lead in embedding the clinical pathways within the CAMHS teams.
• To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different care providers and partner agencies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Experience in CAMHS

Experience

• Experience of working therapeutically in community settings at Band 6
• Experience of CAMHS Clinical Pathways

Knowledge

• Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment for children and young people
• Skills in co-ordinating complex care packages

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.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum pro rata