Deputy Team Manager

Transformation Unit; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Deputy Manager for the Austen Ward Hollins Park and Bridge Ward Brooker Centre in Warrington. The role supports the Clinical Team Manager and ward staff to deliver safe, high-quality care in inpatient mental health services.

The post requires leadership, clinical governance, and mentorship to junior staff, with a focus on recovery-oriented care and multidisciplinary collaboration within a Trust-wide transformation program.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration and maintained registration.
• Post-registration professional development (e.g., ENB 998 or mentorship).
• Approved phlebotomy training is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Supervise caseload and monitor standards of service user care.
• Provide regular clinical supervision per Trust policy.
• Assist development and implementation of integrated care pathways and referrals.
• Support families, carers and professionals through education and information.
• Ensure safe medicines management in line with Trust Medicines Code.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to maintain high-quality care.

Skills

NMC registration

Clinical leadership

Staff supervision

Care planning

Education

NMC registration

Post-registration CPD

Phlebotomy training

Job description

Main area Adults Mental Health - Inpatient Mental Health Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 350-MHC8206414

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Hollins Park, Austen Ward Town Warrington Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 16/11/2026

Deputy Team Manager

Band 6

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

Two exciting opportunities have arisen one in Austen Ward, Hollins Park and one in Bridge Ward, Brooker Centre for a Band 6 Deputy Manager to support the Clinical Team Manager and ward to deliver high quality safe and effective care.

This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and managerial support to team members.

The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for coaching leadership style, quality improvement and attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the Clinical Team Manager in carrying continuing Professional and managerial responsibility for the ward.

The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a balance of Managerial and Clinical activity. They will ensure continuity of care for service users on their journey through the acute service.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Implement case load supervision to monitor the standards of service user care and ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Participate in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.

Provide information, education and support for family members, carers and other relevant professionals.

Give/receive regular managerial/clinical supervision as per Trust policy.

Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.

Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained), on the appropriate part of the NMC register and hold a current NMC registration
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g., ENB 998 / Mentorship in Practice or D32, 33 NVQ.
• Approved training in phlebotomy.

Experience

• Relevant experience at E grade or above.
• Evidence of experience of working with older people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
• Knowledge of relevant Mental Health legislation.
• Knowledge of Mental Health Nursing interventions.
• Knowledge of clinical risk and Health & Safety Management.
• Demonstrate knowledge of ECC guidelines.
• Ability to work as a member of a multi disciplinary team.
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurses’ responsibility to identify.
• Gaps in their knowledge base

Skills

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non verbally.
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills.
• Ability to contribute to developing nursing excellence within the ward area.
• Ability to assist in the process of standard setting and audit.
• Clinical Leadership skills.

Knowledge

• Recovery Model.
• Mental Health Act (1983.
• Effective Care Coordination.
• Relevant National policies and guidance.
• Evidence based and reflective practice.
• Mental Capacity Act.
• Vulnerable Adults Procedure and Child Protection.
• Safety, Privacy and Dignity Guidelines.

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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.

Name Anisa Hussain Job title Clinical Team Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01925 664130 Additional information

Anisa Hussain (Austen) or Emily Riding (Brooker Centre)

[e-mail]

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01925 664130 Anisa & 01928 247122 Emily