Deputy Team Manager/High Intensity Therapist | Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Coventry seeks a Deputy Team Manager for the Talking Therapies team. This permanent, full-time role involves leadership in operations and direct client service delivery. The successful candidate will support management, ensure quality care, and promote team accountability in a progressive mental health service. Opportunities for professional development are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational management.
• Ability to deliver psychological interventions.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support Team Manager in project work.
• Provide strong visible leadership.
• Ensure quality of care in service delivery.
• Promote team accountability for service improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Psychological Interventions

Job description

Overview

Talking Therapies
Deputy Team Manager- Coventry
Permanent Post- Full Time

This post is a key member of the Talking Therapies Operational Management Team, with responsibility for supporting operational management, including effective leadership and supervision of a designated geographical area. The post holder will also support the Team Manager in ensuring the service is developed in accordance with National guidelines. The post holder will retain a small caseload (ideally 40% of a full-time contract which may vary in accordance with service need) and will deliver a high level of psychological interventions with designated clients who have a range of complex Anxiety and Depression related problems.

Responsibilities

• Support Team Manager in project work and lead where appropriate
• Represent the service area at local meetings in the absence of the TM
• Provide strong visible leadership
• Support the Team Manager in the introduction of new and innovative business management strategies
• Ensure that all staff in the service area are clear about what is expected and are working together in successful teams
• Promote a culture where staff feel empowered and accountable for service improvement at local level
• Support Team Manager in developing and implementing reporting arrangements within the service area
• In the absence of the Team Manager review the service area workforce to ensure it has the right numbers of the right level of knowledge, skill and expertise to deliver services
• Ensure that staff within service area are providing optimum quality of care
• Support the Team Manager in ensuring the team is adopting best practice to support the Trust's objective
• Promote a culture where governance and risk management are seen to be everyone’s responsibility
• Ensure that safety is at the centre of service area planning, analysis and delivery
• Support the Team Manager in implementing effective systems to record and monitor governance and risk information

About CWPT Talking Therapies

CWPT NHS Talking Therapies is a progressive service which encourages professional development, supervision and peer support with an identifiable career pathway for PWP’s to develop into more specialised or senior roles. We work closely with members of the local community, service Commissioners, GP’s, secondary care services and various voluntary sector agencies.

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About Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services; we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.

Application

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification attached to this advert for full information regarding the role.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025