Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Community Team Manager *with 3k Welcome bonus*

The closing date is 29 September 2025

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join East Suffolk, Young Adults Mental Health Services' Team (YAMHS) who work with Young Adults age of 18 up to 25 years old.

East Suffolk CFYP has established Young Adults pathway and Clinical Treatment Pathways to support the service provision.

The Community Team Manager for Central YAMHS will be responsible for the operational management of the service delivery within the service. The successful post holder with be supported by a Community Matron and Operational Manager to ensure we provide the highest quality care. There are a range of leadership and training opportunities available to support knowledge and experience development and career ambitions. The Central YAHMS team links closely with the East Suffolk YAMHS Team and East CAMHS teams providing peer and a clinical support framework.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with young people or adults in community mental health, including experience of working with primary and secondary care and the VCSE. We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our team, if you have a passion for providing safe and effective care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As the Community Team Manager you will provide professional governance and leadership within your team to ensure safe caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers.

  • You 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.
  • 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.

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.

Details

Date posted

16 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-ESU7449579

Job locations

Haymills House

Station Road

Stowmarket, Suffolk

IP14 1RF


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!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

* Previous applicants need not apply *

***This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3000 for external staff only. This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment***

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!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

* Previous applicants need not apply *

***This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3000 for external staff only. This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment***

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Nursing Degree or equivalent, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or equivalent or HCPC registered

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
  • -Mentoring Experience

Skills

Essential

  • Competent and effective treatment skills
  • Care planning skills
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Nursing Degree or equivalent, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or equivalent or HCPC registered

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
  • -Mentoring Experience

Skills

Essential

  • Competent and effective treatment skills
  • Care planning skills

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

Haymills House

Station Road

Stowmarket, Suffolk

IP14 1RF


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

Haymills House

Station Road

Stowmarket, Suffolk

IP14 1RF


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Operational Manager

Agi Huszcza

agi.huszcza@nsft.nhs.uk

07956839291

Details

Date posted

16 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year gross per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

246-ESU7449579

Job locations

Haymills House

Station Road

Stowmarket, Suffolk

IP14 1RF


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