Community Team Manager

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

The closing date is 18 May 2025

Job summary

It is an exciting opportunity to join Central Norfolk Youth Mental Health Service who work with adolesence and young adults age of 14 to 25 years old.

Central Norfolk CFYP has dedicated a lot time and effort to develop youth pathway. Clinical Treatment Pathways are in place.

Community Team Manager for Central Youth South, will be responsible for the operational management of the service delivery within the youth south team working alongside the north team manager to support shared functions within the central youth service.

To provide visible leadership, promoting a values based culture and acting as a role model within the environment.

Responsible for leading and managing the team, ensuring they are suitably trained, informed and competent to carry out the full range of duty and that there is a clear processes in place for regular and effective supervision, appraisal, objective setting and personal development planning.

Responsible for ensuring safe staffing levels are maintained according to service budget.

Responsible for ensuring processes are in place to allocate new caseloads and efficient use of resources to ensure caseloads and the management of caseloads remain safe.

Ensuring care is delivered in a patient centred framework involving service users, families and carers.

Main duties of the job

To ensure safe caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers within the clinical environment by ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory requirements and Trust Policies, pathways, standard operating procedures and protocols.

They will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of resources to ensure service users and carers needs are met, and monitor the team's contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the Trust.

The Community Team Manager will provide professional governance and leadership within their area

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Benefits included with this role are:-

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more.

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7170016

Job locations

80 St Stephens Rd

Norwich

NR1 3RE


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RMN, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or HCPC registered
  • Experience in working within Community Mental Health Services

Desirable

  • Ongoing professional development, Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice - Post basic teaching qualification - ILM certificate in management or equivalent

Expereince

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management / supervision experience
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working with Complex case management

Skills

Essential

  • Competent and effective treatment skills
  • Care planning skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Competent assessment skills
  • Establish performance management team structures and systems
  • Ability to prioritise own workload
  • Competent IT skills and service development

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
  • Build on/develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriateness
  • Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health and promotion
  • An understanding of policies and guidelines both local and national
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RMN, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or HCPC registered
  • Experience in working within Community Mental Health Services

Desirable

  • Ongoing professional development, Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice - Post basic teaching qualification - ILM certificate in management or equivalent

Expereince

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management / supervision experience
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working with Complex case management

Skills

Essential

  • Competent and effective treatment skills
  • Care planning skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Competent assessment skills
  • Establish performance management team structures and systems
  • Ability to prioritise own workload
  • Competent IT skills and service development

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
  • Build on/develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriateness
  • Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health and promotion
  • An understanding of policies and guidelines both local and national

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

80 St Stephens Rd

Norwich

NR1 3RE


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

80 St Stephens Rd

Norwich

NR1 3RE


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Operational Manager

Neil Toplis

neil.toplis@nsft.nhs.uk

07443293730

Date posted

02 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7170016

Job locations

80 St Stephens Rd

Norwich

NR1 3RE


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