Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Team Manager to join our award-winning Taunton Community Mental Health Service within Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Our team recently won the OSCAs Clinical Team of the Year award for excellence in transforming mental health services and fostering resilience. As Team Manager, you will provide operational leadership and clinical oversight, ensuring high-quality care for service users while driving service development in line with Trust strategy.
This role requires a dynamic leader with strong clinical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage resources effectively. You will play a key role in shaping mental health services, supporting staff development, and working collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies.
Main duties of the job
- Operational Leadership: Manage day-to-day operations of the Taunton Community Mental Health Service, ensuring delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care.
- Staff Management: Recruit, supervise, and develop team members, ensuring compliance with HR policies and promoting a positive, learning culture.
- Clinical Leadership: Provide clinical supervision and maintain a small caseload, ensuring evidence-based practice and adherence to professional standards.
- Financial Oversight: Monitor and manage team budgets, ensuring efficient use of resources.
- Service Development: Contribute to service improvement initiatives, audits, and implementation of Trust strategies.
- Partnership Working: Liaise with voluntary agencies, GPs, inpatient services, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated care.
- Governance & Risk Management: Lead on clinical governance, manage incidents and complaints, and ensure compliance with safeguarding policies.
About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:
- Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
- NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
- Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
- A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential
Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.
We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.
The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.
Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As Team Manager, you will:
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team within the Community Mental Health Service, ensuring staff receive regular supervision, appraisal, and development opportunities.
- Oversee workforce planning, recruitment, and performance management, fostering a culture of openness and continuous improvement.
- Act as an authorised signatory for team budgets, monitoring expenditure and supporting cost-saving initiatives.
- Provide clinical leadership, including assessment, care planning, and risk management for individuals with complex mental health needs.
- Promote recovery-focused, strengths-based interventions, using approaches such as CBT, CAT, and motivational interviewing.
- Ensure compliance with Trust policies, safeguarding procedures, and national standards, contributing to audits and quality improvement projects.
- Represent the team at professional meetings, liaise with partner agencies, and maintain effective communication across organisational boundaries.
- Support staff wellbeing and morale, acting as a role model for Trust values.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and uphold confidentiality in line with data protection requirements.
- Be prepared to deputise for the Operational Service Manager when required and participate in service development projects.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As Team Manager, you will:
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team within the Community Mental Health Service, ensuring staff receive regular supervision, appraisal, and development opportunities.
- Oversee workforce planning, recruitment, and performance management, fostering a culture of openness and continuous improvement.
- Act as an authorised signatory for team budgets, monitoring expenditure and supporting cost-saving initiatives.
- Provide clinical leadership, including assessment, care planning, and risk management for individuals with complex mental health needs.
- Promote recovery-focused, strengths-based interventions, using approaches such as CBT, CAT, and motivational interviewing.
- Ensure compliance with Trust policies, safeguarding procedures, and national standards, contributing to audits and quality improvement projects.
- Represent the team at professional meetings, liaise with partner agencies, and maintain effective communication across organisational boundaries.
- Support staff wellbeing and morale, acting as a role model for Trust values.
- Maintain accurate clinical records and uphold confidentiality in line with data protection requirements.
- Be prepared to deputise for the Operational Service Manager when required and participate in service development projects.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered professionalEducated to Degree level or equivalentEvidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Management qualification or experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries in a health care settingExperience of providing high quality effective services within resource limitsExperience of delivering services within a performance management framework and of developing and implementing action plans in order to meet specific national and local targetsExperience of serviced based problem solvingExperience of directly managing staff and pay and non-pay budgets
Desirable
- Experience of delivering care in a community setting and providing a range of diverse servicesExperience of supporting staff and developing staff members and active performance management
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Access to regular transport with appropriate business insurance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered professionalEducated to Degree level or equivalentEvidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Management qualification or experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries in a health care settingExperience of providing high quality effective services within resource limitsExperience of delivering services within a performance management framework and of developing and implementing action plans in order to meet specific national and local targetsExperience of serviced based problem solvingExperience of directly managing staff and pay and non-pay budgets
Desirable
- Experience of delivering care in a community setting and providing a range of diverse servicesExperience of supporting staff and developing staff members and active performance management
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Access to regular transport with appropriate business insurance.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
