Team Manager

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Grantham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable mental health service provider in Grantham seeks an experienced Team Manager for the Community Mental Health Team. This role includes leadership, operational management, and ensuring high-quality care for working-age adults with complex mental health needs. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills and experience in multidisciplinary collaboration. A supportive environment with flexible working options is offered, reflecting the organization’s commitment to staff wellbeing.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and promotion opportunities

Diversity support programs

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing community mental health teams.
• Strong understanding of recovery principles in care.
• Ability to foster team development and staff wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee operational management of Community Mental Health Team.
• Monitor service performance and ensure quality care.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary collaboration and communication.

Skills

Strong leadership

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Quality assurance

Communication

Line management

Job description

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.

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.

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 a range 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Barrass Job title: Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07919575382