Team Manager Cotswold, Stroud & Dursley

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Dursley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Team Manager to oversee Mental Health Support Teams across Cotswold, Stroud & Dursley. This role involves leading practitioners, ensuring effective service delivery, and focusing on outcome monitoring for mental health interventions. Applicants should demonstrate strong leadership abilities and adaptability to changes in service delivery. Join a dedicated team committed to enhancing mental health support for children and young people aged 5-18 years.

Qualifications

• Excellent partnership working skills and managerial experience.
• Flexibility and adaptability to change in service delivery.
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate others.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day management of practitioners within MHSTs.
• Ensure effective coordination of referral and case management.
• Plan and deliver against key milestones.
• Provide operational management to the Mental Health Support Teams.

Skills

Partnership working skills

Managerial experience

Flexibility and adaptability

Leadership abilities

Data collection and audit skills

Job description

MHST's are multi‑agency teams led by a Team Manager and comprising of qualified Band 6 Senior Mental Health Practitioners (SMHP), Talk Well + Counsellors (a local charity) and Band 5 Education Mental Health Practitioners (EMHP). This Team Manager role will oversee one of the localities, Cotswold, Stroud & Dursley, working closely with the other team managers.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible and lead the day‑to‑day management and line management of practitioners within MHST’s, including trainee Band 4 and Band 5 EMHPs, Band 6 and Band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioners.
• Ensure effective coordination of a range of operational processes within the team such as referral and case allocation, caseload management, regular review and proactive monitoring of intervention within the MHST’s, including safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
• Demonstrate commitment to ensuring routine outcome monitoring is embedded within MHST development to demonstrate improvements in outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers.
• Be able to plan and deliver against key milestones.
• Provide day‑to‑day operational management and leadership to the Mental Health Support Teams.
• Demonstrate enhanced competence in operational decision making.
• Collect and collate data and information effectively for the purpose of audit and service performance.

Qualified applicants should demonstrate

• Excellent partnership working skills and managerial experience.
• Flexibility and adaptability to change, able to adjust services and delivery over time and in response to feedback.
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate others to work with you.

Opportunity

YMM in Gloucestershire continues to develop Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) working with over 150 primary and secondary schools to increase access to mental health interventions for children and young people aged 5‑18 years. New investment has seen the service expand and an exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for a Team Manager role. This is a stimulating and challenging role with opportunity to be part of the MHST in Gloucestershire and join the national programme transforming the way children and young people access mental health support and interventions.

Our People & Culture

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services across 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust. Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to share their experiences of working with us.

Employee Satisfaction Highlights

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.