Team Leader

Hpft; Cheshunt; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a team leader in the Primary Care Mental Health Service, based in Cheshunt. The role involves day-to-day operational leadership, supervising staff, and contributing to service development within a Trust that values high-quality patient care.

The post offers an opportunity to develop leadership skills within an established NHS service, with a focus on collaboration, policy advancement, and effective workforce management.

Qualifications

• Registration with NMC, GSCC or HPC is required.
• Certificate or Diploma in management is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational management, leadership, and supervision to Primary Care Mental Health Services staff.
• Manage Primary Care Mental Health staff including EPMHS staff and GP+ staff.
• Maintain a clinical leadership role and/or a caseload as needed.
• Contribute to development and implementation of local policies and procedures.
• Lead recruitment, selection, appointment and induction of team members.
• Oversee rostering, time worked and annual leave via the ERoster system.

Skills

Leadership

Team supervision

Staff management

Education

Certificate or Diploma in management

Job description

Site Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Primary Care Mental Health Service Town Cheshunt Salary £51,657 - £58,785 per annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS) Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

Would you like to work for an Outstanding Trust?

Come and work in our friendly Primary Care Health Service which is based in Holly Lodge, Cheshunt! The team delivers psychologically informed interventions and other support interventions for those who fall into the gap between Community Mental Health Teams and NHS Talking Therapies Teams.

You will work in collaboration with Primary Care Mental Health Services Manager and other Team Leader colleagues, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery for our service users.

We are looking for a team leader to provide daily leadership and support the team’s ongoing development. You will have a registered profession such as nursing, occupational therapy or social work.

This is a great opportunity for someone seeking to develop their leadership skills.

This role is an office base role.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• provide day to day operational management, leadership, and supervision to Primary Care Mental Health Services Staff
• manage primary care mental health staff which may include EPMHS staff and GP+ staff
• maintain a clinical leadership role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need
• contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures
• work with the Service Manager, to undertake the timely recruitment selection, appointment and induction of team members
• manage all aspects of the team’s time i.e. Rota, Time worked, Annual Leave via the E Roster system.

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ensure the provision of appropriate triage and advice to individuals with severe mental illness and complex needs, presenting in primary care
• Ensure the liaison with other services or agencies to support the primary care network response to mental health needs in primary care.
• Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities appropriate to primary care.
• Maintain service activities in line with the agreed referral and triage criteria.
• To provide a flexible service, responsive to Service User need and Stakeholder feedback.
• To develop the service in line with Trust strategy
• Maintain an effective skill/ professional personnel mix to provide a multi-professional team approach.
• Put in place systems to investigate and access a wide range of services designed to meet occupational, recreational, social and health needs in primary care.
• To provide information for service development and evaluation through the use of outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.
• Implement risk assessment procedures related to the working environment, tasks and client management.

For a more detailed person and Job Description please read the attached before applying

Person specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of current registration with the NMC, GSCC or HPC.
• Cert or Dip. in management.

Experience

• Extensive post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community.
• Experience of working within or with primary care services
• Experience of providing clinical and management supervision.
• Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management.
• Experience of working within or with primary care services

Please note, we do not charge fees for job applications, recruitment processes, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. Please see the Trust careers vacancy webpage and Trac as the only authorised routes for recruitment communications, applications and verification of job offers.

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.