South Kirklees Core Team Manager

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust is seeking a Community Mental Health Team Manager in Huddersfield to lead a dedicated team delivering high-quality mental health care. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership abilities, clinical insight, and a commitment to compassionate services. Responsibilities include overseeing clinical governance and managing caseloads. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape service delivery and improve the lives of individuals with complex mental health needs.

Qualifications

• Proven ability of post-basic clinical practice.
• Demonstrable leadership experience.
• Ability to manage and support staff effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver mental health services.
• Oversee clinical governance and manage caseloads.
• Ensure compliance with service standards and KPIs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Insight

Problem-solving

Education

RMN / RN Mental Health

Management Qualification related to health and social care

Job description

South Kirklees Core Team Manager

The closing date is 31 October 2025

Are youready to lead a passionate team making a real difference in peoples lives?As a Community Mental Health Team Manager, youll oversee a multidisciplinarygroup dedicated to delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individualswith complex mental health needs. This role demands strong leadership, clinicalinsight, and a commitment to compassionate, recovery-focused services. Youllshape service delivery, support staff development, and foster collaborativerelationships across health and social care. If youre a confidentcommunicator, emotionally intelligent, solution-focused leader with resilienceand proven experience in leadership this is your opportunity to lead!

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to befully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

As Community Mental Health Team Manager, you will lead and coordinate amultidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care toadults with complex mental health needs. Youll oversee clinical governance,manage caseloads, support staff supervision, and ensure compliance with servicestandards and KPIs. Key responsibilities include service planning, riskmanagement, performance monitoring and fostering strong partnerships withexternal agencies. Success in this role requires excellent leadership,communication, and problem-solving skills, with experience of navigating mentalhealth care pathways. Youll be instrumental in driving quality improvement,empowering your team, and ensuring service users receive the support they needto thrive.

Visa sponsorship under the Health and Care Worker visa route canonly be considered if the prorated salary meets the minimum threshold of £50,300,as required by the UK Visas and Immigration. For this Band 7 role, onlyfull-time positions at the top of the pay scale meet this threshold. Therefore,sponsorship may not be possible depending on salary increment placement andworking hours.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

The Post holder will be responsiblefor the effective day to day delivery of integrated community mental healthservices within the designated team area.

The post holder will be responsiblefor the day to day management of resources and staff employed by both SWYPFTand integrated partners with agreed permissions framework to act in conjunctionwith service managers for both health and social services.

The post holder will be expected tohave strong clinical and leadership skills and be responsible for ensuring thedelivery of quality community mental health services.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

Management and Resources

The Team Leaderwill manage allocated resources on behalf of the trust and local authority toensure that fundamentals of care are delivered.

Provide day to daymanagement of all staff within the community team including sickness andabsence monitoring, conduct and performance etc.

Ensure that teamresources are deployed appropriately to meet the day to day demands on theservice.

Ensure service provisionmeets the individual needs of service users and their carers within thepersonalisation, prevention and recovery agenda.

Ensure that the serviceobserves the legal and philosophical requirements of national legislativeframeworks.

Monitor the quality andappropriateness of service provision.

Monitor team budgets andtake measures to ensure that they remain within agreed establishments, alertingthe budget holder of current or expected budget pressures.

In conjunction with thelocal funding agreements, authorise appropriate use of community care budgetsto purchase community care packages which have been developed thorough qualityassessment and care planning process.

Ensure the provision of supervisionand caseload management for team members in line with appropriate linemanagement structure.

Ensure staff managementand appraisal systems are implemented and monitored as required by the trustand local authority.

Ensure that team membersmeet professional and statutory obligations and comply with trust and localauthority policies and procedures.

Ensure that trust andlocal authority performance requirements are met and necessary data iscollected, using electronic information as required.

Ensure appropriate trustand local authority procedures are carried out under the agreed multi agency safeguardingprocedures.

Ensure service user andcarer influence and involvement in planning and evaluating interventions andservices.

Participate in localservice planning and development.

Lead in the recruitmentand retention of staff within the team.

Undertake HR and systeminvestigations and write reports that will evidence the investigation andsupport higher level decision making.

Leadership

The Team Leader will use a range of positive behaviours and leadershipstyles to influence others in the provision of high quality community mentalhealth service, working collaboratively to achieve trust, local authority andservice objectives.

Provide a visible,accessible and authoritative presence to which staff, service users, carers andadvocates can turn to for assistance, advice and support.

Use problem solvingskills and empowerment to resolve issues.

Support staff in thedevelopment of their new ideas, strategies and quality initiatives.

Make recommendations forchange in clinical practice and lead implementation of changes in conjunctionwith team and the general manager.

Take an active role inleading the development of integrated community teams.

ClinicalDevelopmental

The team manager will support and coordinate the clinical developmentof staff and the team in line with current policy, trust and local authorityguidance.

Foster an environmentwhich values and encourages evidence based practice, research, clinical audit, servicedevelopment and evaluation.

Work in conjunction with professionalleads across health and social care to ensure appropriate training and learningopportunities are facilitated for staff working within community services.

Develop / utiliseappropriate networks at local and regional level to develop and promote personalisation,prevention and recovery approaches in community services.

Develop promote andimplement the trusts and local authorities principles of Visions Values andGoals.

Ensure own clinicalpractice is maintained to an advanced level which is up to date with contemporarymental health practice and within own professional discipline.

For full job description, please see attached supportingdocuments.

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Person Specification

Training

• Relevant post qualification training / learning in professional field.
• Willingness to maintain mandatory training requirements.
• Safeguarding manager and/or investigators training.

Experience

• Proven ability of post-basic clinical practice.
• Demonstrable leadership experience.
• Highly skilled at assessing and managing people with mental health needs.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of skill in supporting /mentoring /supervising staff and students/ trainees.
• Knowledge and evidence of using IT systems.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of skill in assessing and managing risk in a variety of settings.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of skill in assessing the needs and strengths of people and their carers.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of skill in delivering a range of therapeutic techniques.
• Proven ability to support team members with day-to-day caseload management including prioritisation of responsibilities in times of high clinical demand.
• Proven ability to promote and develop links with other professionals e.g. practitioners within long term conditions, primary care.
• Evidence of knowledge and application in practice of national guidance and standards e.g. NICE, CQC, CQUINS.
• Using and implementing clinical governance systems.
• Experience of chairing meetings.
• Experience of providing and receiving supervision and appraisal.
• Experiencing of leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Has undertaken a clinical audit/research project.

Special Knowledge & Skills

• Able to undertake and meet the key results areas for the post.
• Has advanced knowledge and proven ability in current mental health practice and national policy and guidance.
• Able to exercise leadership by personal example, demonstrating respect, openness and reliability, and able to foster these characteristics within the team.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills that foster good working relationships and understanding in others.
• Able to implement and manage changes to internal systems to a reasonable conclusion.
• Able to analyse problems and identify and implement strategies that will resolve them.
• Able to write evidence based reports that support higher level decision making.
• Knowledge and skills in specialist areas such as dual diagnosis, peri-natal mental health, working with people experiencing psychosis, working with people with a diagnosis or personality disorder, working with people with co-existing mental and physical health needs that impacts on well-being.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Personal Attributes

• A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
• Able to work flexibly to manage a range of differing and sometimes conflicting demands with a willingness to work flexibly to meet the needs of service users and the team including extended hours.
• Self motivated, and able to set own priorities and meet deadlines.
• Works actively as part of own team and the wider health and social care management team.
• Analytical.
• Reliability, enthusiasm, motivation, resourcefulness, resilience.

Qualifications

• RMN / RN Mental Health, or DipSW / CQSW / CSS or OT.
• Experience of mentoring/supporting learners or ability to demonstrate the skills required for effective mentoring.
• Practice Education/Practice Assessor Preparation Certificate
• Management Qualification related to health and social care.

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.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust