Living Well Team Manager - Tameside | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS FT; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the UK seeks a passionate Team Manager to lead the Tameside Living Well MDT. Responsible for clinical leadership, supervising staff, and ensuring effective care for individuals with mental health conditions. The ideal candidate will have strong management skills and experience in mental health services. This role offers an opportunity to make a significant impact within the community.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in providing clinical leadership.
• Ability to manage and supervise staff effectively.
• Understanding of the mental health care system.

Responsibilities

• Support management of the Tameside Living Well MDT.
• Provide clinical leadership and expertise.
• Coordinate assessment processes for individuals.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Supervision

Effective communication

Team management

Education

Relevant clinical qualifications

Job description

Overview

Living well Tameside is looking for a Team manager who is passionate about delivering excellent mental health services and can support and enable the team to achieve their potential.

The Living Well MDT offers an approach to supporting people with mental health conditions, widening the front door to support better access and ensuring closer working between primary and secondary care mental health services. The team works with individuals to co-ordinate access by identifying need and support introductions and will be a conduit between Primary Care and other agencies ensuring warm introductions and smooth seamless journeys. The national strategic direction within the structure of Primary Care Network is to employ a wider range of health professionals to manage the increasing demand. The role will include leading work to collaboratively connect across organisation, national and service boundaries to improve access to offers relevant to people’s needs, ensuring support happens in the community and makes usage of people’s local and personal resources.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Responsibilities

• Support the management of the Tameside Living Well MDT providing clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to all staff in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined in the operational procedures.
• Providing clinical leadership and expertise to inform identification of people’s needs and ensuring the co-production of personalised care plans to support the delivery of high quality, brief support.
• Supporting individuals to identify their needs and ensure they can access the support they need, when they need it.
• Provide support and care for individuals referred to the Tameside Living Well MDT and co-ordinate the assessment process.
• To work independently and autonomously and deputise for Senior Management when required.
• To manage the workload of the Tameside Living Well MDT, ensuring systems are in place to enable effective and efficient performance.
• Ensure implementation of the service working procedures as well as managerial and professional policies.
• To effectively manage staff and provide managerial supervision and annual personal development plan in accordance with trust policies.
• To provide effective leadership to the team within a high pressure environment, managing own emotions and those of others.
• To support the Senior Manager to work with and monitor performance indicators ensuring data quality is maintained.
• To ensure professional supervision systems are in place.
• To participate in the recruitment and appointment of staff within agreed HR procedures.
• To manage disciplinary and grievance matters in line with trust policies and procedures.
• To chair MDT and team meetings, reviews, case conferences, planning meetings as required.
• To work in partnership with other statutory, independent sector and other agencies, in the effective discharge of the duties of the post.
• To monitor and review health and safety of staff, service users and to provide regular monitoring reports to line manager.
• To manage staff sickness through the Managing Attendance policy/procedures and to provide regular monitoring reports to the line manager.
• Establish quality standards relating to service user and carer experience and establish systems to monitor and audit these standards.
• To deal appropriately with clinical incidents and complaints in accordance with trust policies.

Please refer to job description and person spec for full details.

This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025