Team Manager

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking a Team Manager for their Early Child Development Pathway. This role involves leading a multi-disciplinary team and managing the provision of care and treatment. Candidates should have a degree-level qualification, leadership experience, and strong communication skills, especially in multidisciplinary settings. The position offers the opportunity to work closely with families and professionals to enhance health outcomes for young children.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes.
• Ability to communicate highly complex information.
• Experience in managing complaints and financial payments.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of the clinical team.
• Ensure evidence-based clinical care delivery.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary partners in healthcare.

Skills

Leadership skills

Effective communication

Knowledge of evidence-based practice

Experience with multidisciplinary teams

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent

Post graduate diploma in supervision/leadership

Tools

NICE guidelines knowledge

Job description

Overview

Go back Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 08 October 2025

This is a full time role for a Team Manager position working within the Early Child Development Pathway. This is an exciting time to join CFHD and work within a multidisciplinary team specialising in early years complex needs.

You will support in leading members of the team, provide day to day management of the provision of care and treatment within the pathway.

You will be someone who has a keen interest in working with infants, young children and their families who also has skills in leading and managing multidisciplinary professionals within the pathway.

Main duties of the job

To provide day to day management of the provision of care and treatment within the Early Child Development pathway. To line manage a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians working within the pathway, ensuring supervision, appraisals and mandatory training is completed in line with polices.

To provide leadership to the clinical team ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of the service, ensuring performance monitoring standards are adhered to. The post holder will manage effective operational delivery of the service in collaboration with senior clinicians, clinical leads and other managers.

To ensure provision of high quality, safe and responsive community integrated health care to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals according to need.

To ensure, alongside the clinical leads that the service is based on best practice and evidence; is outcomes focussed and audit and routine outcome monitoring is used to improve clinical effectiveness and outcomes for children and young people.

To provide advice to professionals internally and externally on the pathway.

Ensure that care and treatment is delivered in response to local need in partnership with communities and other local services.

To be an integral part of the locality leadership team, collaboratively driving the overall service strategy, objectives, vision and ambitions and contributing to transformational change and continuous service improvement.

About us

Why Work With Us

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;

• Torbay and South Devon FT
• Royal Devon and Exeter FT
• Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
• Livewell South West

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people which are provided by TSDFT and DPT. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure".

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.

Job responsibilities

Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management of the clinical team

Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care including triage, assessment, clinical formulation and care planning, treatment, and discharge of children and young people

Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and partner organisations across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector

Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated and feedback elicited, considered and acted-upon

In partnership with the Band 8a Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively

To maintain systems designed to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team

To ensure data is captured and used to drive effective service delivery and improvement

Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and operational), to maintain a culture within the service of excellence in clinical standards and safety

Work with other Team Managers and Clinical Team Managers across the multi-agency system of childrens services in the locality to ensure the clinical pathway is delivered as part of an integrated system of care, to improve health outcomes for children and young people

Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance targets

Ensure robust financial management of the teams activities

Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians with the ability to demonstrate compassionate leadership, to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff with a range of skills and communication needs

Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings with the ability to present information in a range of formats, adapting communication to meet the needs of others

To deputise for the Band 8a Operations Manager as required

Person Specification

• oA qualification at degree level or equivalent
• oAdditional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills
• oKnowledge of evidence-based practice including NICE guidelines and routine outcome monitoring relating to the designated pathway
• oExperience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, and experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• oSpecialist skill in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, highly complex, technical and/or clinically sensitive information to children/young people and families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the service, adapting your approach according to the individual needs of the audience
• oExperience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management
• oExperience of managing complaints, incidents and financial payments

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.

Employer name

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Address

County-wide post with base to be agreed in either Honeylands, Springfield Court or John Parkes Unit