Team Manager

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; South Kesteven; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS mental health provider in South Kesteven seeks an enthusiastic Team Manager to lead the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). The successful candidate will oversee daily operations, provide strong leadership, and ensure high-quality care for working-age adults with complex mental health needs. This role offers opportunities for flexible working, ongoing training, and a commitment to staff well-being within a supportive and inclusive team environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Wide range of training opportunities

Supportive staff networks

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and experienced in community mental health.
• Strong leadership and operational management experience.
• Ability to promote staff development and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Embed clinical pathways for safe, effective care.
• Provide leadership and monitor service performance.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary collaboration across teams.
• Ensure continuity of care with strong communication.
• Promote regular supervision and appraisal within the team.

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary collaboration and maintain strong communication between internal teams and external partners.
• 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.
• Have line management responsibility and promote regular supervision and appraisal within the team, fostering staff development and promoting wellbeing.

About the Trust

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.