Team Manager

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Band 8a Team Manager for the Brent and Harrow Perinatal Mental Health Service. You will lead a multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality care to women and birthing people with perinatal mental health challenges during pregnancy and postnatal periods.

You will oversee referrals, caseload management, supervision, safeguarding, and quality improvement while collaborating with maternity, health visiting, primary care,

Qualifications

• Educated to degree/diploma level with a recognised relevant professional qualification in mental health, social work or occupational health with equivalent experience.
• Master’s Degree in a field related to mental health or equivalent qualification or significant equivalent experience.
• Accredited management and / or leadership qualification (desirable).
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and clinical leadership to the Perinatal Community Mental Health Team.
• Line manage multi-disciplinary team including clinicians, social workers, and other staff.
• Develop and maintain joint working relationships with primary care, maternity, health visiting and adult mental health services.
• Ensure delivery of integrated biopsychosocial assessments and high standard care.
• Oversee referrals, caseload management, and clinical review processes.
• Support safeguarding, risk management and governance requirements.
• Represent the service at stakeholder meetings and in the perinatal management team.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Supervision

Team collaboration

Compassion

Education

Degree in mental health

Master's degree

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and highly motivated clinician and leader to join our Brent and Harrow Perinatal Mental Health Service as a Band 8a Team Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to provide operational and clinical leadership to a specialist multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality care to women/birthing people experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the postnatal period. Working closely with consultant psychiatrists, clinical leads and the wider perinatal management team, you will provide strong day-to-day leadership, ensuring safe, effective and responsive services. You will oversee referrals, caseload management, clinical and managerial supervision, safeguarding, risk management, workforce development, performance and quality improvement. You will build strong partnerships with maternity services, health visiting, primary care, social care, adult mental health services and voluntary sector partners, helping to ensure that families experience coordinated and accessible perinatal mental health care.

Main Duties of the Job

• To provide a strong and clear leadership in partnership with the clinical leads in the service.
• To ensure that the teams work to an agreed operational policy offering an integrated biopsychosocial assessment and a high standard of care and service to people presenting with perinatal mental health challenges.
• To develop a relationship with external stakeholders across primary care, health visiting, adult and children social care, maternity, health visiting and the voluntary services
• To develop relationships with internal stakeholders such as CMHTs, Early Intervention Teams, Psychiatric Liaison and Home Treatment Teams.
• To deputise in the absence of the Head of Service, represent and actively participate on behalf of CNWL perinatal services at stakeholder’s meetings, network links, etc.
• To work in partnership with the clinical leads in the service mainly the team consultant psychiatrists to ensure that the service is delivered in line with the agreed service specifications and local and national Key performance indicators, guidelines for perinatal and outcome measures.
• To support the team in the evaluation of the service by the PQN and support the accreditation process.

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 8a team managers to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members. As a Band 8a team manager we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better. We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic. We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work. As a band 8a team manager we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be the operational manager for the Perinatal Community Mental Health Team, responsible for the workload of the team and ensuring that priorities are met.
• To forge good working relationship with the teams’ consultants and support medical management
• To line manage perinatal CPNs, social workers, OTs, psychologists, other qualified and unqualified staff, administrative staff, volunteers and interns.
• To ensure systems for the delivery of multiagency perinatal care planning and personalized care are in place and that they are made available to service users in the team
• To work with in the relevant legislative frameworks (e.g. Mental Health Act (1983) Mental Capacity Act (2005), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Care Act 2014, Children’s Act, etc.)
• To ensure that services within the multidisciplinary team are well coordinated in order they are responsive and attuned to the needs of its service users
• To ensure that systems are in place for monitoring referrals, allocation, caseloads and clinical review processes
• To ensure that managerial, clinical and professional supervision is given to all professional staff in the team and to ensure that staff work to high standards of professional practice.
• To demonstrate a high level of clinical competence both in relation to supervision of staff and direct face to face contact with service users
• To be a member of the perinatal management team. To advise the Head of Perinatal Services regarding the delivery of community perinatal mental health services and be involved in identifying the resources needed in the team.
• To ensure that the service works in co-ordination with other primary and secondary community, acute in-patient and tertiary mother and baby services and the volunteer sector.
• To forge good working relationship with leads professionals within primary care, IAPT, maternity services, health visiting, social care and adult mental health services to enable a clear pathway, partnership working, the sharing of expertise and peer supervision.
• To maintain and develop administrative procedures regarding the recording of case records, team activity, clinical and non-clinical for ease of access and quality data and information for access to health care records, freedom of information, benchmarking, service evaluation, research and auditing purposes.
• To ensure that service users are involved in the development of the team and local services
• To facilitate the development of effective supporting structures for carers in line with CNWL and local authorities’ guidelines
• To carry a caseload of patients with highly complex needs.

Please note: This vacancy does not meet the criteria for Skilled Worker sponsorship, unless you meet the criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. “Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and continuously held a Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024.” As such, if you don’t meet the Transitional Provision (above) we are unable to consider your application unless you can provide documentary evidence of your right to work in the United Kingdom. If you believe you are eligible for sponsorship or already hold a valid right to work in the UK, please ensure you provide full details of your immigration status in the Pre-Screening Immigration section of your application form. Please note role eligibility also depends on whether the role meets the salary threshold for the relevant occupational code (SOC CODE).

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree/ diploma level with a recognised relevant professional qualification in mental health, social work or occupational health with equivalent experience.
• Master’s Degree in a field related to mental health or equivalent qualification or significant equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Accredited management and / or leadership qualification
• Mentorship qualification or equivalent

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working in an inpatient mental health ward and /or Community services at Band 7 or above
• Proven experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team including managers and clinicians
• Experience of working within statutory and other regulatory frameworks within which health and social care services operate and translating these at an operational level
• Experience of developing programmes designed to improve user and carer involvement
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural Environment and of involving users and carers, ensuring culturally sensitive practice
• Experience of conducting appraisals and personal development planning and of providing feedback in a constructive way
• Sound Safeguarding decision making knowledge and related procedures

Skills And Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and verbal skills; ability to write reports to a high standard that are accurate and clear.
• Ability to work as member of a multidisciplinary team, and to facilitate productive working relationships.
• Supervising staff, delivering and coordinating staff training and strong management skills and effective leadership ability