Team Manager North Manchester Early Intervention Team

Transformation Unit; Manchester; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Team Manager for the North Manchester Early Intervention in Psychosis service. You will provide clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team delivering evidence-based, recovery-focused care for individuals typically aged 14–65 experiencing First Episode Psychosis, ensuring day-to-day service delivery and KPI compliance.

The role requires safeguarding oversight, supervision of the MDT, and management of referrals to

Qualifications

• Education to at least degree level or evidence of appropriate professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and management supervision, clinical consultation, and support to the MDT.
• Maintain safeguarding oversight and manage service-level risk, ensuring clinical interventions are safe, evidence-based, and trauma-informed.
• Oversee team caseloads and the referral pathway, ensuring timely assessments.
• Ensure active service user and carer engagement in care planning, service development and evaluation.

Education

Degree level or higher

Job description

Employer Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Central Park Town Manchester Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 27/11/2026 23:59

Team Manager North Manchester Early Intervention Team

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

We are seeking a compassionate, and dynamic leader to manage our North Manchester Early Intervention in Psychosis team. This pivotal role provides comprehensive clinical leadership to a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team (MDT) dedicated to delivering high-quality, evidence-based, and recovery-focused care. The service supports individuals (typically aged 14–65) experiencing a First Episode Psychosis (FEP).
As Team Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the service, and ensuring the team meets National Quality Standards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Main duties of the job

Please refer to Job description and and person specification for full details.

Provide professional and management supervision, clinical consultation, and support to the MDT.

Maintain safeguarding oversight and manage service-level risk, ensuring clinical interventions are safe, evidence-based, and trauma-informed.

Oversee team caseloads and the referral pathway, ensuring timely assessments.

Ensure active service user and carer engagement in care planning, service development, and evaluation.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for details

With support of the Operational manager to have delegated
responsibility for the development, organisation, delivery and
management of a high quality early intervention in psychosis team in
agreement within the agreed budget and service level agreements.
To assist the Operational manager in the delivery of services that meet national, regional, trust wide and local commissioning targets. This will include the management of referrals, ongoing cases, prioritisation,
allocation and supervision of work within team, ensuring compliance
with CPA/care management standards and Clinical Governance.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Evidence of relevant education to at least degree level or evidence of appropriate professional development
• Evidence of appropriate training/ qualification in psychosocial interventions in psychosis
• Practice Teaching qualification/experience or equivalent

Experience

• Appropriate demonstrable experience of working in Child & Adolescent or Adult Mental Health at a senior clinical leve
• Experience of supervising others.
• Previous experience of working across organisational boundaries

Knowledge

• Knowledge of best practice relevant to the work of an Early Intervention Service
• Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. CPA, MHA

Important Information about working for GMMH:

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, for further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org

The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

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Sponsorship

We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click here .

If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

The Home Office introduces new changes from 22/07/2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it here .

Do you have experience outside the NHS?

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.

We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.

**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.