Team Manager - Trafford South Community Mental Health Team (CMHT)

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Altrincham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Altrincham is seeking a Team Manager for the South Trafford Community Mental Health Team. The role involves leading a dynamic team to provide high-quality, person-centred mental health care for adults. Candidates should have experience in community services and be passionate about improving mental health outcomes. The position offers a supportive environment with significant opportunities for professional development and impact on local mental health services.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Motivated and driven individual with enthusiasm to lead a team.
• Experience in managing community mental health services.
• Skills in integration with various health and social care stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team.
• Participate in the management of community based secondary mental health services.
• Provide operational oversight and clinical support.

Skills

Leadership

Community services knowledge

Team management

Job description

A Vacancy at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

A fantastic opportunity to become Team Manager of South Trafford Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) has become available. Trafford CMHT is an integrated team, comprised of a variety of professionals who offer effective, person‑centred care daily. This role presents a unique opportunity to provide strong and consistent leadership to a dynamic and enthusiastic team who provide care and support for adults of working age.

The desired individual is a professional who is motivated, driven, and has the enthusiasm and ability to lead the day‑to‑day operations of the team. You will provide strategic oversight for the team and support individuals within the team via management supervision and clinical support to the wider integrated team.

We are looking for somebody who is passionate about community services and wider community transformation efforts across the mental health landscape. Furthermore, we are seeking somebody with the necessary skill set to support integration with inpatient, urgent care, Local Authority, acute services and the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise sector.

The role of CMHT team manager will enable you as a mental health leader to support the development of both staff and mental health service delivery more broadly. There is huge potential and scope to genuinely make a difference to the lives of Trafford residents.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the day‑to‑day operational management, leadership, and development of a multi‑disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for working age adults. The team is integrated, flexible, user‑focussed, and recovery‑orientated to deliver a safe, effective, and high‑quality service to service users with mental health needs.
• Participation as a member of the Community Services Management Team in the overall management of community based secondary mental health services.
• Participate in the service bronze on site / on call rota as required.
• Trafford South CMHT promotes the wider trust values of caring, compassionate, valuing people, respecting one another as well as practising open and honest culture.

Additional Information

Interviews will be held in March 2025.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7,000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations, including Bolton, Manchester, Salford, Trafford, and Wigan, as well as a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Please see attached job description and person specification.

Staff Benefits

• Pay Enhancements: Band – Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any weekday after 8pm and before 6am; All time on Sundays and public holidays (midnight to midnight); Band 1 – Time plus 47%; Time plus 94%; Band 2 – Time plus 41%; Time plus 83%; Band 3 – Time plus 35%; Time plus 69%; Band 4-9 – Time plus 30%; Time plus 60%.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Excellent pension.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Wellbeing programme.
• Blue Light Card Discounts.
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles).

This advert closes on Friday 5 Dec 2025.