Team Leader

NHS; Ware; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust is seeking a Team Leader to manage a dedicated team in Primary Care Mental Health Services. The role involves providing daily leadership, operational management, and clinical supervision while fostering collaboration with other healthcare services. Candidates should hold relevant professional registration and have significant experience in community mental health. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a supportive environment focused on quality service delivery.

Qualifications

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Extensive experience in mental health within the community.
• Experience in providing clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational management and leadership for Primary Care Mental Health Services Staff.
• Manage primary care mental health staff and contribute to policy development.
• Liaise with agencies for mental health responses in primary care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Clinical supervision

Education

Registered with NMC, GSCC or HPC

Certificate or Diploma in management

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Team Leader

The closing date is 27 January 2026

Would you like to work for an Outstanding Trust?

Come and work in our friendly Primary Care Health Service which is based in Cygnet House, Ware! 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.

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.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.

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.

Job 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

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.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cygnet House, 1 Old College Court, Priory Street, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0DE

£50,008 to £56,908 a yearper annum, pro rata (Inclusive of 5% HCAS)

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

367-ACMS-10001

Job locations

Cygnet House, 1 Old College Court, Priory Street, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0DE