Team Leader - Integrated Care Team

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Team Leader for the Integrated Care Team to manage and lead a multidisciplinary team providing healthcare support. Responsibilities include ensuring effective service delivery, managing staff, and contributing to policy development. The role focuses on helping individuals with complex health needs remain at home and avoid hospitalization. Expected qualifications include experience in leadership and mental health care. Salary ranges from £50,008 to £56,908 per annum.

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership and management of multidisciplinary teams.
• Clinical experience in mental health or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high standards of practice and service delivery.
• Provide leadership and supervision to the Integrated Care Team.
• Manage staff to meet the needs of service users.
• Contribute to policy development and implementation.

Job description

Team Leader - Integrated Care Team

The closing date is 02 January 2026

The Integrated Care Team (ICT) aims to make healthcare more preventative – this service supports service users with multiple long‑term or complex conditions to remain at home rather than go into hospital or residential care. Referrals are accepted from primary care, ambulance service, A&E and secondary care.

This role is within the Integrated Care Team in HPFT, a nurse‑led service offering specialist mental health support to wider primary care services within Hertfordshire Community Trust and local Primary Care Networks. ICT works alongside GPs, matrons, district nurses, OT’s and physiotherapists, as well as supporting hospices, care homes, other primary level specialist services (such as heart‑failure nurses) and adult care services. We support by assessing, providing interventions, monitoring medication changes, sign‑posting or escalating where necessary for both physical and mental health needs.

Our referral criteria are not age restricted but based on frailty and home‑based care, supporting people with both physical and mental health needs at a primary care level and short‑term (up to 12 weeks). The team covers East and North Hertfordshire and is based in 6 localities. Alongside mental‑health nurses the team has psychology and OT input.

Main duties of the job

• Work in collaboration and ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery; work as part of the Mental Health Directorate to deliver the services required under the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
• Provide day-to-day management, leadership and supervision to a multi‑disciplinary Integrated Care Team.
• Manage nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and other staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through effective deployment of these staff. Also maintain a clinical role and/or a caseload dependent on sector need.
• Contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.

About us

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

Our family of over 4,500 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

See attached documentation for further details of the job description and person specification. This job description is an outline, which reflects the present requirements of the post and is not intended to be an inflexible or finite list of duties and responsibilities. As these duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be amended from time to time in consultation with the postholder.

Person Specification

Personnel experience and training required; see attached.

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.

£50,008 to £56,908 a year per annum, pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS).