Team Manager

NHS; Harrogate, Northallerton, Scarborough, York; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a highly motivated Team Manager for the Intensive Support Team specializing in learning disabilities. This full-time, permanent role involves operational oversight, staff management, and collaboration with patients and external agencies, focused on delivering quality care. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply to contribute to this vital service.

Qualifications

• Must have significant experience with complex mental health or learning disabilities.
• Candidates should hold leadership or management qualifications.
• Continuous professional development evidenced.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational management of the Intensive Support Team.
• Ensure high professional standards in patient care.
• Manage staff development and training needs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team Management

Clinical Supervision

Education

Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare

Post-graduate diploma in a relevant area

Leadership or management qualification

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Team Manager

The closing date is 06 July 2025

An exciting permanent opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, pro-active and enthusiastic Team Manager for our Intensive Support Team in NYY&S for the learning disability service.

This is a full-time post and we encourage applications from candidates wanting to work innovatively and flexibly to ensure that staff and service users are fully supported to achieve their full potential. The team is in development and the team manager will help drive and develop this service.

Main duties of the job

The Team Manager will provide operational management of the Intensive support team , including accountability for ensuring the highest professional standards and attitudes towards the care of patients are maintained and delivered at all times in accordance with evidence-based practice. They will be pivotal in developing this service.

We would welcome candidates to contact us for an informal discussion.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job responsibilities

The North Yorkshire and York Intensive Support Team is a newly developed team, based at Systems House in York, which will operate 7 days a week, operating enhanced hours across the week. This post we would envision would work flexibly within the service, days and hours can be negotiated. Candidates can also be based at any of our North Yorkshire, York and Selby sites with a flexible approach to be based at York for a minimum of two days a week (Negotiable).

The successful candidate will manage a team of dedicated staff to support their ongoing development, identifying training and development needs to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe care that is responsive to individual needs.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Certificate in teaching & assessing in clinical practice as appropriate to own profession.
• Clinical Supervisor.
• Post-graduate diploma in a relevant area.
• Leadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
• Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Experience

• Significant experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in a community setting
• Significant experience of working collaboratively with clients and their families/carers
• Significant experience of providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
• Demonstrable leadership or management experience
• Significant role in quality improvement activities
• Use of the Trust's Quality Improvement system

Knowledge

• Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for clients in the designated field.
• Good understanding of relevant legislation (e.g.Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act) and its application in practice
• Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice
• Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
• Detailed understanding of Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
• Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
• Research and development methodology
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment
• The Trust's quality Improvement System (QIS)
• Budget Management and Financial Standing Instructions.
• HR policies and procedures

Skills

• Must be able to: Manage a team effectively
• Provide effective leadership
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to clients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Work positively and collaboratively in partnership with external agencies
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
• Use approved breakaway techniques
• Write reports and policies
• Undertake basic statistical analysis

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Yorkshire Locality wide

York/Northallerton/Scarborough/Harrogate

York/Northallerton/Scarborough/Harrogate