Team Manager

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

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Grantham is seeking an experienced Team Manager to oversee its Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). This role encompasses day-to-day operational management, leadership, and quality assurance to ensure the delivery of effective mental health services. Candidates should possess a degree in mental health or social care, strong clinical reasoning skills, and experience managing staff. A commitment to high-quality care is essential, along with the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders. Flexible working options and career development opportunities are provided.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Wide range of training and promotion opportunities

Active staff network groups

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs.
• Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills.
• Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of clinical care in one's own practice and the team's practice.
• Lead on the step-up, step-down approach, engaging with Primary Care.
• Manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with Service/Trust productivity requirements.

Skills

Highly developed clinical reasoning skills

Negotiation skills for conflict resolution

IT skills - email, word processing, excel

Self-motivated with excellent personal management skills

Education

Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent

Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice

Management Training

Job description

Team Manager

The closing date is 28 December 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Team Manager to lead our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in the Grantham locality. This role involves overseeing the day-to-day operational management, providing strong leadership, and driving the ongoing development of a multi-disciplinary CMHT that supports working-age adults with complex mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Service Manager in delivering effective day-to-day management of the multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). As part of the Grantham Locality Mental Health offer, the post will work in close collaboration with the Integrated Place-Based Team Senior Mental Health Practitioner (SMHP) to ensure a seamless and coordinated service for service users.

Main responsibilities of the role will include:

• Embedding clinical pathways, based on recovery principles, to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care for individuals with mental health needs, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, procedures, and values.
• Provide clear leadership for the team, while monitoring service performance and quality to ensure robust quality assurance processes are in place, enabling the delivery of a safe, high-quality service.
• A core responsibility of the role is to coordinate multidisciplinary collaboration and maintain strong communication between internal teams and external partners.
• You will ensure a smooth interface and continuity of care across services, promoting joint working and integrated support and interventions at the right time, in the right place, with the right provider for service users.
• You will have line management responsibility and promote regular supervision and appraisal within the team, fostering staff development and promoting wellbeing.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well‑led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has an arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job responsibilities

To provide a high standard of clinical care in one's own practice and the team's practice.

To embed the principles of no wrong front door, no cliff edges, co‑production and personalised care and support.

To lead on the step‑up, step‑down approach, engaging with Primary Care and the VCSE sector.

Be an active attendee of local partnership groups.

To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage case‑load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

To act as care co‑ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Supporting the move away from CPA to personalised care.

Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and, where appropriate, change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

Please refer to the Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities of the job.

Person Specification

Skills

• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
• Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.
• IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.
• Analyse and interpret data and/ or information.
• Budget management.
• Statistics.
• Self‑motivated with excellent personal management skills.
• Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stakeholders.

Experience

• Post‑ Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs.
• Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills.
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality.
• Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries.
• Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act.

Qualifications

• Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1 st Level Registration (eg NMC, HCPC) or qualified psychological therapist (CBT, Counselling, PWP).
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
• Management Training.

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel around the county.

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.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust